Urban Junkies | Music | Review: Anti Atlas 'Between Voices'

Tip toeing between electronica and chill out music can be a bumpy path where many of those who attempt it find themselves flat on the floor covered in damp aural waste. So much ubiquitous chill out music is blatantly dull that it takes a brave musician to preserve with the genre.

Of course though there is always room for well-made, relaxing music. Ambient or electronic music should excel at creating captivating and hypnotic atmospheres after all.

That is what Radiohead's manager Chris Hufford and composer Ned Bigham achieve with their Anti Atlas project. It basks in orchestral majesty and bewitching subtle electronica.

Each piece of music was lent to a different vocalist so that it would be embellished with a unique interpretation from the likes of Gemma Hayes or Norwegian Kristin Fjellseth.

The sum is a mesmerising listening experience that hops over any chill out tag to a special place where Eno and Reich once reigned.

Blissed out, not washed out.

Anti Atlas
Between Voices is out now on One Little Indian and is available at Amazon.co.uk.