Plaid

Polymer is a baker’s dozen of tunes that finds the duo of Ed Handley and Andy Turner showing off all of their tricks. Crafted under the manifesto ‘Polyphony, Pollution and Politics’, Polymer manages to synthesise this trio of concerns into a set of stirring electronic compositions. Unsurprisingly for a record so heavily concerned with the current socio-political climate, there are times when Polymer can be an intense listen. Handley and Turner repeat the magic several times across the track list, and these computer ballads bring Polymer close to the sort of records Mark Pritchard has been crafting of late. As they have done time and again throughout their career, Plaid draw a human warmth from their machines on Polymer.

• 01 Meds Fade
• 02 Los
• 03 Maru
• 04 Ops
• 05 Drowned Sea
• 06 The Pale Moth
• 07 Dancers
• 08 Nurula
• 09 Recall
• 10 All To Get Her
• 11 Dust
• 12 Crown Shy
• 13 Praze