AMOR

Sinking Into A Miracle 9/10

It shouldn’t really work – an experimental artist/filmmaker, an avant-folk polymath, a freejazz double bassist and Franz Ferdinand’s drummer – but ever since their first single, 2017’s “Paradise”, Glasgow’s amor have made strangely perfect sense. It’s partly down to what they do – exploring the possibilities of disco, they carry on where figures like arthur Russell and The Peech Boys left off, their fixation on the possibilities of trance and repetition dovetailing with the psalmic weave created by Richard youngs’ multitracked vocals. Sinking Into A Miracle is absolutely beautiful – otherworldly, often, and quietly ecstatic, in its own, strangely pop way.