Cremation Lily - The Processes and Instruments of Normal People

First vinyl pressing of what the label copy says to be Cremation Lily's second album but elsewhere online tells me is perhaps the fourth... More confusingly still, the press release also tells me this forms a trilogy of albums influenced by British coastal towns. Whatever the truth (and not sure it matters), this is a beguiling low key wonder fitting of such vague origins. Recorded using a pared back set up of synth, drum machine and two walkmans, there's a haunted quality to these six densely layered, almost submerged tracks, as if they're either (or both!) beamed in from the fog of memory or divined from underneath the land, soundtracking a vertiginous wander across lonely dunes. This is the beauty of tape music - it contains multitudes within it. Palimpsestic sound, the past held in the present. As you might expect, there's some kinship with later period Burial, almost certainly some shared ground with The Caretaker, though i mostly hear what might happen should Brian Leeds concertina his Huerco S, Loidis & Pendant work into a single form. And if that hasn't convinced you enough, just go listen for yourself. Might be one of the best things you pick up this year.