Floating Points - Cascade

‘Cascade’ pushes Floating Points’ sound forward into new places. The songs are allowed to smoulder and spark for up to eight minutes at a time, allowing for more expansive exploration of sounds and grooves than before. A subtle homage to his hometown of Manchester ripples across ‘Cascade’. ‘Afflecks Palace’, an enveloping glide of harp melodies overtaken by otherworldly bleeps and beeps, is named after a Mancunian market described as an ‘emporium of eclecticism’. Elsewhere, there’s ‘Key 103’, named after an underground Manchester radio station a young Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) would listen to religiously. Almost a decade on since ‘Elaenia’, his revered debut album, the
composer has discovered ways to thread his experiments outside of club music seamlessly into his music designed for the dancefloor.