This new Robin Kester single is splendid. The Dutch musician is now in an elite class, having recently signed with Memphis Industries, a Brit label with a roster featuring the Go! Team and Field Music. “Departure,” her new collaboration with This Is The Kit’s Rozi Plain, is diaristically influenced and filled with gestures of leaving. “You travel to a sunlit place, but the light there is also strange,” she sings against Ali Chant’s synthesized, orchestral production. The track is dappled in vibrant havoc, hiking upwards in scale as a wall of voices harmonizes behind Kester’s.
There are glimpses of a young Beth Gibbons here, but Robin Kester’s chamber singing bellows like the seams of a moor rupturing into uniqueness. “Departure” is beautiful in all of its zig-zagging, executed as a perfect wash of pop decadence.
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