Conduit

Death Grips, Mike Skinner, Burial, Wiley, Throbbing Gristle, Exuma — these are some of the names that are flitting through my head listening to Conduit. The name that seems most relevant is Mica Levi, Sey’s collaborator and a sort of north star for all this London-adjacent, unfancy spiritual experimentalism. This album is more or less a rap album that breaks into one of the most beautiful electric piano tracks I’ve heard in ages (“Eve”) and a live free jazz-ish quartet improv (“Response”). Sey is a withdrawn and melancholy vocalist, someone who sees things as they are and lets the differences make the difference.