Curd Duca follows up last year's "Waves 1", his first album in two decades, with another flawless examination of sound and texture, contorting church bells, percussion, musical samples and field recordings methodically - and often humorously.

After his impressive 1990s/00s run on Normal and Mille Plateaux, he disappeared for 20 years before emerging from the aether last year. "Waves 2" takes off into more experimental realms, expanding on Duca's unusual combination of avantgarde aesthetics and organic qualities. We get to hear 32 hypnotizing sonic experiments that range from burbling synth interferences and sequenced FM trickery to microtonal flute music and processed traffic sounds.

"Waves 2" is a hallucinatory experience, like a collage of mixtape assembled by one of the masters of the form, splicing together psychedelic synthesized wind sounds into cavernous glass percussion and granulated noise. - boomkat