Floating Points new album ‘Crush’ out now

18.10.2019

FLOATING POINTS NEW ALBUM CRUSH OUT TODAY

FLOATING POINTS AND SPOTIFY TEAM UP FOR LONDON PROJECTIONS AND BESPOKE WEBSITE TO BRING ALBUM TO LIFE

NEW LIVE SHOW, INCLUDING LONDON’S PRINTWORKS IN NOVEMBER

“Utterly fabulous”
9/10 Mixmag ‘Album of the Month’

“Whatever wavelength Shepherd is on, Crush is the almost untouchable proof that no-one else is anywhere near it”
9/10 Loud and Quiet

“Crush is further proof of Floating Points’ undeniable ability to make electronic experimentalism sound so good”
9/10 Future Music ‘Album of the Month’

“The producer’s dazzling, freeform album bristles with angular melodies”
4/5 The Guardian

Visit the website here:
https://floatingpoints.co.uk/spotify

Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points‘ new album Crush is out today. As is typical to his career so far, the album defies all expectations – solidifying his position as one of Britain’s most respected electronic artists. Crush has already received widespread critical praise including a cover feature with DJ Magazine, 9/10 ‘Album of the Month’ from both Mixmag and Future Music and 9/10 from Loud and Quiet as well as 8/10 from Crack, The Line of Best Fit, Uncut and more.

Spotify & Ninja Tune have today launched a bespoke website where fans can experience unique visuals as they listen to the album for the first time. Additionally, on Saturday evening (19 October) from 6pm BTS these unique visuals will be beamed into the real world as live projections in Shoreditch’s Ely’s Yard.

The website will enable fans to discover the new album in full whilst watching the enthralling, never seen before visuals created by Hamill Industries – the artistic team behind the album artwork, the video for single ‘Last Bloom’ and the Floating Points live shows. Hamill have recreated the album artwork (made using a method in which bubbles react to the percussion of Sam’s music) in their studio exclusively for this project.

Tomorrow, as the sun sets on Saturday night, projections will slowly be revealed in Ely’s Yard just off Brick Lane in Shoreditch. Using a technique called ‘projection mapping’ the analogue visuals have been manipulated to interact with the shape and details of the building’s exact dimensions so the the grey, urban and concrete London space will be transformed into a swirl of kaleidoscopic colours.

Speaking of the event Floating Points says:
“Hamill Industries and I have been experimenting with projections for our live show and so the opportunity to bring these to a different environment and on such a big scale is really exciting.”

Anna Diaz (Hamill Industries) explains the inception and creation of the unique visuals:
“Creating these visuals is an organic, physical process where percussive elements of Sam’s music creates beautiful swirls of kaleidoscopic colours in the film of a bubble. As we wanted the liquids to interact with the shapes of the building, we designed proportional geometry around its architectural features by creating a physical model and creating the visuals by hand. By doing it this way, we stayed true to the spirit of the audio-reactive bubbles and all the analogue visual styles created by Floating Points, and it also made it more realistic and refined.”

Purchase Crush here:
https://store.floatingpoints.co.uk/

Photo credit: Dan Medhurst Tour dates:

NEW LIVE SHOW
13 Nov – Paris, FR @ Elysee Montmartre
16 Nov – Berlin, DE @ Funkhaus SOLD OUT
16 Nov – Berlin, DE @ Funkhaus – Late Show
21 Nov – London @ Printworks15 Apr – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
16 Apr – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
17 Apr – San Francisco, SF @ Gray Area

Tickets and full dates including additional DJ dates are here: https://www.floatingpoints.co.uk/

Praise for Crush:

“Utterly fabulous”
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“Whatever wavelength Shepherd is on, Crush is the almost untouchable proof that no-one else is anywhere near it”
9/10 Loud and Quiet

“Crush is further proof of Floating Points’ undeniable ability to make electronic experimentalism sound so good”
9/10 Future Music ‘Album of the Month’

“Shepherds most accessible, dancefloor-minded, party-friendly collection to date”
8/10 Uncut

“Worthy of our undivided attention”
8/10 The Line of Best Fit

“The producer’s dazzling, freeform album bristles with angular melodies”
4/5 The Guardian“Crush is an insight into Sam Shepherd’s brilliant mind”
4/5 The Independent

“Put simply, Crush is a triumph”
4/5 DIY

“Crush is packed with life”
4/5 Evening Standard

“The most tightly-constructed and dense work Floating Points has ever released”
4/5 The Skinny

“One of 2019’s most sublime electronic albums”
Clash

“[Crush] flits between experimental techno, transcendent house and dark ambiance to reach the recesses of the human brain”
London In Stereo

“A sub five-minute masterclass in potent four-four rhythms, percussive electronic grooves and non-nonsense techno minimalism”
9/10 DJ (LesAlpx)

“Shepherd doesn’t revisit his early music so much as survey the scene and roll a hand grenade towards it”
4/5 Resident Advisor (LesAlpx)

“A magisterial creation”
The 405 ‘Track of the Day’

“Totally magical”
It’s Nice That

“Celestial”
Creative Review

“Crush shows Floating Points in full possession of his art; a true master of his craft”
Inverted Audio