Nils Frahm returns with an expansive new album, Music For Animals, his first fresh studio material since 2018s All Melody and 2019s associated All Encores.
Containing ten tracks and clocking in at over three hours long, its an ambitious and compelling set different to anything Frahms released to date – in fact, it finds the Piano Day founder declining to use a piano – but at the same time retains many of the qualities that have set the influential musicians work apart over much of the last two decades.
Unfolding at an unhurried, meditative pace in a celebration of tone, timbre and texture – and thus of sound itself – Music For Animals offers an unusually immersive experience. “My constant inspiration,” Frahm explains, “was something as mesmerising as watching a great waterfall or the leaves on a tree in a storm. Its good we have symphonies and music where there is a development, but a waterfall doesnt need an Act 1, 2, 3, then an outcome, and nor do the leaves on a tree in a storm. Some people like watching the leaves rustle and the branches move. This record is for them”.
Music For Animals is a substantial collection that encourages listeners to bask in its tranquility at their chosen depth, demanding only as much attention as they wish to contribute. As Frahm himself happily points out, “It all comes back to that waterfall. If you want to watch it, watch it. If you dont, then you dont have to. It will always be the same, yet never quite the same.” Indeed, thats Music For Animals greatest strength. Instantly recognisable, it is still like nothing else.
This 4LP vinyl edition comes housed in a single-pocket cardboard jacket, and protected by premium quality three-ply, anti-static inner sleeves.
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