FOREST LAW Vinyl & CDs

Review: London-based keyboard player, composer, bandleader and DJ Greg Foat is a musician completely of his time and somehow beyoGreg Foat trades in his go-to instrumental versions for a narrative-led, spiritual concept record, teaming up with singer Forest Law on a space-crafted mission, orbiting the life and work of Isle Of Wight painter and surfer Dave Gray. It's the first time Foat has built an album entirely around a vocalist, and Forest Law leans into an abstract, painterly mode, channeling early Peter Gabriel and David Sylvian with lyrics full of oblique references to ocean rhythms and coastal philosophy. Underpinned by a supple rhythm section (none other than Moses Boyd on drums, Idris Rahman on sax, and Tom Herbert on bass) the album meanders between new wave, jazz fusion and mellow psychedelia, centrally yet sensually reoriented by Foat's signature Rhodes work.