The Animal Spirits
Electronic producer James Holden has remade himself into a bandleader on his new album—a collection of self-described “folk-trance” recorded with improv ensemble the Animal Spirits.
Simultaneously more overtly experimental yet more easily accessible, The Animal Spirits is a triumph that makes rigidly electronic textures seem so last year.
James Holden returns with a new band – The Animal Spirits – and a complex, beautiful and immersive masterpiece of an album.
When James Holden released his superb 2013 LP The Inheritors, critics likened his synthetic psychedelia to first-wave electronic experimente...
James Holden's mesmerising third album with his newly expanded group The Spirit Animals was recorded live in single take in one room.
Proof of just how far Holden has strayed from even the loosest bonds of club music.