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daedelus - bespoke - ninja tune - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: New Jazz / Headz

1. Tailor-Made (feat. Milosh)
2. Sew, Darn, Mend
3. Penny Loafers (feat. Inara George)
4. One And Lonely (feat. Young Dad)
5. Suit Yourself
6. What Can You Do ? (feat. Busdriver)
7. French Cuffs (feat. Baths)
8. In Tatters (feat. Kelela Mizanekristos)
9. Slowercase D
10. Overwelmed (feat. Bilal)
11. Nightcap

After a busy couple of years of touring, remixing and releasing singles and EPs with Brainfeeder, All City, Magical Properties (the Daedelus home-imprint), Alpha Pup, Warp and Stones Throw, Alfred Darlington aka Daedelus returns with his new full length album on Ninja Tune, "Bespoke," a title summing up the unique and eccentric vision of a musical artist as obsessed with the clothing of the Victorian era as he is with the music of the future.

The album features vocal talents "from all around this current music mess" (as Darlington puts it). The wobble-bottomed "Overhwhelmed" features acclaimed soul singer Bilal. Inara George (of Bird and A Bee) illuminates the woozy psychedelia of "Penny Loafers" with nursery rhyme clarity. Kelela Mizanekristos adds an aching soulfulness to late night ambience on "In Tatters". The spooked steel drum and tabla montage of "French Cuffs" provides the perfect atmosphere for Baths (aka Will Weisnefeld). Sometime fast rapper Busdriver shows he can croon on the up-tempo latino-carnival-house of "What Can You Do?" and Amir Yaghmai (appearing as Young Dad) offers clean and melancholy post-Mozza melody to the disturbed under-pinning of "One and Lonely". In addition, Yaghami also played guitar on much of the record, as Daedelus set about working more live instrumentation into his musical textures than ever before. Om'mas Keith of Sa Ra contributes keyboards to the space-symphonic "Suit Yourself" and Alfred's Uncle Pete (aka Pete Curry of surf band Los Straightjackets) played most of the drums.