There's something rather heartwarming about the ongoing friendship and musical collaboration between Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri. Since beginning to work with each other a few years ago they've barely met, yet they're able to create sweet music together by swapping sounds, samples, sketches and processed instruments online. This second collaborative full-length excursion was therefore produced in two different places (their respective home cities of Buenos Aires and New York) simultaneously, with each musician working alone in response to the other's ideas. It makes the completed tracks - spellbinding ambient and drone tracks that are variously ghostly, ethereal, intimate, spacious, hushed and becalmed - even more remarkable. It shouldn't work, but it does - and then some. In other words, it could well be the first great ambient album of 2020.

Jura Soundsystem