Album Of The Week: Bonobo – Fragments


Bonobo Fragments artwork




Stream and revisit: Our pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past week is Simon Green’s latest Bonobo effort Fragments.

“Around about the same time last year, Bicep released their second album Isles in the midst of yet another lost-count lockdown.”

“Although their self-titled debut had been wall-to-wall bangers, its follow-up was more austere, subtly architected for consumption wherever the listener wanted it.”

“This conscious ambiguity reflected that ‘dance’ music, for want of a better term, with its purpose of fueling shared joy and collective hedonism has been impacted more at an experiential level by events than almost any other kind; if you can’t feel it in your ears, gut and brain, is it really there?”

“As Bonobo, Simon Green is a veteran with a catalogue going back over 20 years but whose understated success came in appealing to a diverse bunch of the movement’s often cliquey tribes; it’s critically evidenced by 3 Grammy nominations, commercially so by a Top 5 spot for 2017’s Migration.”

“For some years an LA resident, he’s declared Fragments the most emotionally intense record he’s ever created, one he felt compelled to make.”

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