Djrum: Under Tangled Silence Vinyl 2LP

"'We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.' This line from Patti Smith was going round and round Felix Manuel's head as he gradually constructed Under Tangled Silence, his first album in six years and a record of a literal creative rebirth. Felix originally began it in earnest in 2020 Covid lockdown, but a catastrophic hard-drive meltdown destroyed almost all his work and sent him close to psychic collapse himself. However, ultimately this pushed him to rebuild from scratch and in so doing to confront and reassess every part of his musical and psychological processes. The result is utterly extraordinary. Felix was a child prodigy as an instrumentalist and his advanced musicality has always been prominent in his music, but here he has put himself front and centre as pianist, harpist and more. But this doesn't mean there's a move away from the soundsystems and dancefloors where Felix made his name as a uniquely innovative vinyl DJ." - Houndstooth

• black double vinyl pressing
• gatefold sleeve
• music label: Houndstooth 2025