Cacoy - Human Is Music
[Rumraket]

Like Fisher Price with breaks and beats, Cacoy kick back with jigsaw baby synths & tricky glitches; colouring in the simplicity as easy as child's play on an album which sounds a lot like last years Tujiko Noriko and Aoki Takamasa collaboration. But with fewer vocals and more instrumentation and like 28, something about it gradually enchants, it works as a familiar whole.

Until now, Human is Music had only been released in Japan and three years ago at that. But now Rumraket release this hidden beauty, and it deserves your undivided attention.

Distorted acoustics draw out whistles and primary beats in disarray for the break out of Cacoy's Mood, whilst Trees Who Treat Minors is drowned in nursery rhyme simplicity, where the beats slot into organs and sax like hands in cashmere gloves.

Thank You Africa pulls out a sparse new-jazz arrangement, with beats skipping easily over the saxophone melodies and gentle vocals, building and twisting around each other to beautiful effect.

Murals of Music is eight minutes of more thoughtful mature sounding broken electro-pop, pulling together an impressive array of elements into a wall of synths, samples, glitch stimulated beats and endearing vocals.

An album which functions only as a complete set, Human is Music is a glorious escape into broken pop, trip-hoppy beats and easy electronica.