Various Artists - Favourite Places Volume Two

The second volume of Audiobulb’s ‘Favourite Places’ series won’t do much for fans of proper tunes what you can hum.

The concept is simple: artists (including Calika, Michael Trommer and Yannick Franck) create a field recording of their favourite place, then base a composition around it. Perhaps understandably this is largely ambient, though there’s room for a skittering beat on Calika’s track. Predictably, with a project like this, it has its longueurs.

But there are also moments of heart-soaring beauty, like Jeremy Bible’s ‘Behind The Concrete Factory’, and He Can Jog’s closing glitch-fest, which sounds not unlike a fragmented and digitally reconstructed Thom Yorke. Atmospheric and frequently lovely.

7/10

Words by Ed Salmon