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December: 18 albums you need to hear this month
KiNK, Roman Flügel, Anja Schneider and more
Chloé 'Endless Revisions' (Lumière Noire)
From her early days as resident at the Rex club in Paris, Chloé has cut her own line through musical styles. She’s always had extraordinarily high production values informed by the most academic and experimental electronica, but also a natural sense of groove and song structure, and no fear of pop melody. On her third album, it’s all here: microscopic environmental sounds, trippy indie/shoegaze textures, arch electroclash poise, Berlin techno immersion and a restrained industrial dub reminiscent of the Modern Love stable, as well as glimpses of that pop sensibility (see recent single ‘Recall’). Sometimes it seems a bit emotionally distant, but overall, there’s great beauty here. Joe Muggs
8/10
