Digital Rain (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & African

Digital Rain (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & AfricanHot on the heels of the critically acclaimed 2017 LP Windswept which soundtracked David Lynch's Twin Peaks, Digital Rain is Johnny Jewels latest album. Jewel is known for his extensive collaborations with film makers David Lynch, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Ryan Gosling, as well as for his work with groundbreaking musical groups such as Chromatics, Glass Candy, and Desire. The 19 movements of Digital Rain are three dimensional beds of analogue warmth

They initially practised at a rehearsal space shared with fellow post-punk funkers A Certain Ratio and Joy Division/New Order

On the A side

because in the relationship

Mdou and I had played three weddings a day for about a month and a half on that trip

but Tyler conveys it as much through the warm synths and '70s soul drums as he does words

thanks to the album's creative songwriting

including Roland Alphonso

Recorded in a week

The duo's mix of retro electronics and chiming guitars is still as dreamlike and distinctive as ever -- if anything

" Soon after that they started a dance craze with "(Baby) Hully Gully

and flute are driven to the height of each song

Alec Palao