Latvia's Ugis Jansons comes highly recommended by Manchester's own Michael Holland, and sees Jansons working through a number of beautiful poppy piano pieces and shimmering loungey jazz numbers. Sitting somewhere between the off-kilter pop of Efterklang, the twinkling piano of Frahm and Jens Lenkman's cleverly produced sunshine pop. There's elements peeping through of dancefloor electronics and post-dubstep, before breaking into super-smooth glitched hip-hop, but all of the seemingly disparate elements are pulled together into a refined and beautifully polished whole. It's constantly surprising, thoroughly entrancing and most importantly, a great listen.
TRACK LISTING
1. KLAVRĪT 02:55
2. PLKST 1 13 5 04:01
3. JĀ 03:38
4. MIERĪGA 03:06
5. STARPSPĒLE 00:59
6. RĪT 03:56
7. UPE 04:13
8. WAVESTATE 03:41
9. KNTRLE 04:44
10. NAKTHTTPS 04:24
11. ELĒPSPRATS 01:13