Best electronic albums of 2020: sixteen

16 – Nathan Fake – Blizzards (Cambria Instruments)

For this entry in the 2020 album countdown, we go over to our reporter Fat Roland. Fats, can you hear us?

    "Yes, I can, Fat Roland."

Fat Roland, what can you tell us about Nathan Fake's fifth and best album?

    "Erm. Nothing much."

What? Oh. I thought you were going to tell us about Blizzards.

"Don't really like music, sorry."

Apologies, viewers, we seem to have a technical fault, in that Fat Roland is technically an idiot. Instead, we can cut to this piece Fat Roland wrote for the Picky B*stards website:

"The cracking thing about Nathan Fake’s Blizzards is that it does all the best albums at once. The breakbeats of Cry Me A Blizzard have the nostalgic giddiness of Octo Octa.... North Brink seems to blend the icy hi-hats of Shinichi Atobe’s Yes with the melted warmth of Khotin’s Finds You Well to make a temperature that’s, erm, just right.... Blizzards works on its own terms too, powered by a frustrated energy, its rhythms rising from the foundations of the clubs we no longer go to."

Even it did drop down my Best Of 2020 list since I wrote that piece (read it in full here), Nathan Fake is on his best form here.

 

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