Reach The Endless Sea vinyl

Over the last few years Shackleton has helmed a number of collaborative projects that combine his love of tipsy, off-kilter electronics and off-kilter rhythms with more traditional musical forms, often drawn from the British folk tradition. He's at it again here via the first album from Tunes Of Negation, a collective whose members also include regular collaborator Heather Leigh, Takumi Motokawa and Raphael Meinheart. The majority of the lengthy musical explorations that make up the album combine pagan-friendly drum rhythms, mystical electronics, twinkling new age melodies, folksy vocal chants, trippy effects and oodles of psychedelic intent. It's hard to describe accurately, but hugely endearing and alluring: a kind of multi-dimensional, time-travelling sound soup that feels like some contemporary soundtrack to a medieval ritual on a windswept Lancashire moor.

Alexis Le-Tan, GK Machine, Mimi