To Know Where It’s Going

It’s easy sometimes to think that bohemian individualism can’t exist amid the glut of digital culture – but then a record will come along like this one by Londoners Anthony and Demetri Kastellani. It’s not indie, it’s not classical, it’s not folk, it’s not “lo-fi,” it’s not Cypriot music, it’s not ambient… although it certainly nods in all those directions. The presence of sometime Arthur Russell collaborator Peter Zummo here gives us a hint of the world we’re entering, but really in the listening the album is more like a poem, or a breath of perfumed air, in the way it touches deep but then drifts away before you can grasp what it is. A thing of low-key but stunning beauty, that feels like it exists a little outside time and influence.