Is this the culmination of everything that has been happening in music over the past decade, or the sound of what is to come in the next one?
Walls – half Italian noisenik Banjo Or Freakout, half London remix team Allez-Allez – have created an album that is both an evolutionary step from the looped soundscapes of Panda Bear and the natural conclusion of the Balearic extremes of the disco revival; sparse yet enveloping, progressive yet constantly emotive.
Is it ambient? Space-rock? Or techno? Definition is futile – bathe instead in these ebbing waters and forget all you know.
7/10
Words by Neil Condron
