The music of uh - aka brother-sister duo Dominic & Fionnuala Kennedy - is as ecstatic as anything you can imagine. Seasoned savants of London’s experimental electronic music circuit, their wondrous coalescence of rave, pastoralism and futurism has left listeners blissfully stupefied over the years. Forged in the volatile crucible of London’s live circuit, their sound warms and exhilarates in equal measure.
On ‘pleroma’, their new EP for PRAH Recordings, uh live up to their reputation as much as they enrich it, augmenting acid-streaked euphoria with beatific, immersive atmospheres, anchored in ambient, synth-pop and finely tuned breakbeat. uh still make music ‘outside the box’. Much like their earlier ‘Seasick in Salts’ EP (2020) and ‘humanus’ LP (2023) all the tracks on ‘pleroma’ began as hardware jams, resulting in music with a flow state vitality; a rare spur-of-the-moment prowess. Veering fluently between BPMs, on soundscapes teeming with life, uh imbue ‘pleroma’ with the compelling naturalism of an unforgettable live performance.
Encompassing a diffuse yet cohesive range of ideas, the EP’s rhapsodic opener ‘nostos’ emerged from an early improv session; an extraordinary scene of inspiration miraculously preserved, as if in amber. Effervescent choreographies of breakbeat percussion, spryly vitreous synth lines, and the soaring, pitch-contorted voice of Fionnuala, all swimming together, like some sinuous, sculptural centrepiece.
So unique and creative, an undiscovered island of pop music mixed with heavenly chords and wisps of angelic voices throughout the mix; stunning like a dream to which you want to return but cannot truly remember. Jono Schneider
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