Album Review: Translate by Luke Abbott

Last year’s Music From The Edge Of An Island found Norfolk electronica producer Luke Abbott adrift in pensive and blinkered surroundings. Originally produced as the soundtrack to Jessica Hynes' debut directorial feature The Fight (in which a young mother drowning in emotional trauma takes up boxing as a form of physical and emotional self defence), that album was mossy and delicate and showed Abbott light footing around a musical ring that threatened to swallow him whole. As gorgeous as it was, all smothered in bruised piano refrains, it felt like an echo of what had come before it.

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