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December: 18 albums you need to hear this month
KiNK, Roman Flügel, Anja Schneider and more
Anja Schneider 'SoMe' (Sous)
Anja Schneider’s first album in nine years (and also her first since leaving Mobilee) is a seamless, soulful blend of underground house and techno. The album’s biggest track – the rave piano-pounding ‘All I See’ – looks destined to be a huge club anthem this winter, while the richly melodic ‘Sanctuary’ featuring bearded Stereo MC Rob Birch is another standout cut, with barbed lyrics and a deft, bubbling techno underbelly. A clutch of on-point club missiles then take the album home, before it finishes on a Massive Attack-like moment of haze and clarity. Only the trumpet-fuelled d’n’b interlude ‘WMF’ sounds a little bit out of place, but that’s just a minor quibble: ‘SoMe’ is a pertinent reminder that there’s still beauty in idiosyncrasy. Ralph Moore
8/10
