Fringe Magnetic: Twistic – review

(Loop Records)Jamie Cullum makes a one-track guest appearance on his sideman Rory Simmons's personal project, but Fringe Magnetic runs to very different rules about grooves, hooks and risking audience confusion about what's coming next. This album features some long-matured material, such as the affecting singer Elisabeth Nygaard's spookily plaintive insomnia song Awake Like This. But it also represents imaginative progress toward a mix of classical strings-ensemble textures, nu-funk percussion ...

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