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Jordan Reyne: Passenger

The album's accompanying press release says Reyne made this record at a low ebb, but she has always examined dark and unsettling aspects of life and death in her music. Her previous output is most affecting when it touches upon personal desolation. Here she is displaced in Europe, one woman with a computer trying to reconcile a broken relationship and the outbreak of war. The core of the music is in meditative droning soundscapes which ominously herald thunder clouds on the horizon. Clanking, industrial railway scrapings contribute to a sense of isolation and fracture. Possibly an uncomfortable or grating listen, Reyne is a brave and singular voice and this a current affairs soundtrack to a battle-weary world. Melancholia that absorbs negative ions, the disc is not without a share of hummable tunes and is an ideal post-work slump comedown. File your copy next to iconclasts Eno, Bjork and Sinead.

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