Jordan Rakei - Origin

Jordan Rakei - OriginSoulful, intimate and expansive all at once, Jordan Rakeis third album, Origin, cuts straight to the point, in every sense of the word. The melodies are brighter, the sound is bigger and the vision behind it more finely tuned. Switching up from the highly personal and intimate portrait he painted with 2017s Wallflower, which was a way of grappling with his experience of anxiety and introversion, Origin is overtly inspired by dystopian visions of our

O’Flynn has become a household name within the UK electronic dance scene over the past few years and has garnered support with plays on Four Tet’s Boiler Room

who invited him on tour

the images that came were something about the world after all this

before I even knew what it was

due out 21st May

which is where we begin the new album

” going on to say that it is “an expression of this frustrated anger at masculinity and a resentment at being unable to free yourself from that and explore the world

“He can play anything with strings

A record with a precocious maturity and coherence

With the producer in effect using them as a new instrument

The album shifts from 'The Highest Flood's skeletal bounce to 'Panic's claustrophobic paranoia

while composing