![]() Hopkins’ piano is the key element here, and as the track progresses to pure ambience in the middle section its prominence becomes more apparent. The Wider Sun segues into Vessel, a truly hypnotic piece of music that opens with found sounds and a simple piano refrain before layering on deep bass, synths and electronic glitches and crackles. The album opens with the keening folk track The Wider Sun, which subverts any Celtic clichés by the subtle electronic touches rippling beneath the traditional instrumentation. ![]() Insides is more immediate than last year’s ambient single The Fourth State, fine piece of ‘pure music’ though that was. It is in this environment that he is able to experiment freely and produce his melodic electronica, although his classical training informs the structure and texture of the resulting music. The former Royal College of Music piano student has worked with Coldplay, Massive Attack, Brian Eno and King Creosote to name a few, and has recently finished work on the soundtrack to Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lovely Bones.įor all his classical credentials, Hopkins at heart is a creature of the studio. Jon Hopkins is a busy enough man not to have bother with releasing solo albums, but we should be thankful that he finds the time to pop into the studio because Insides is another beautiful and fully realised work of art.
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