A creatively brilliant expanse, pushing forward into startling new realms of electronic abstraction that stand musique concrete as a totemic force in 21st century expression, Flora Yin-Wong’s debut LP, ‘Holy Palm’, out via Modern Love, is easily one of the most exciting records to appear this year.

Those with their ears to the ground, will already be aware of the slow rumble that has been gathering around Flora Yin-Wong, over the last few years. After capturing a great deal of attention with her contribution to PAN's ‘mono no aware’ compilation, and her cassette 'City God', issued by PTP, the London-born, Chinese-Malaysian producer, writer, artist, DJ, and journalist, finally drops her first full length LP, ‘Holy Palm’, via Modern Love. It imbues the aural plane with vibrancy and life fleeting and concrete.

Flora Yin-Wong works with field recordings and carefully constructed organizations of dissonance, deftly rethinking the perceived boundaries of experimental electronic music, drawing heavily on references and her own relationship to contemporary club culture and the musics that define it. Channeling the ghosts of her life in a masterful and at times brooding meditation on metaphysics, superstition, and memory, ‘Holy Palm’ operates like a tapestry of interconnecting recollections, woven with extensive field recordings made by the artist over the past 6 years, heavily processed and collaged to a remarkably transformative effect.

A deeply personal journey, taking her far into the depths of sonic ritualism, across 10 discrete works Yin-Wong reworks aural snapshots of far-flung places - from an abandoned Arctic settlement in Svalbard and fleeting grime & jungle car stereo blasts seeping into Indonesian street scenes, to an accidental recording of a monk chanting prayers on a radio in rural Chania, Crete, drug-fueled Tokyo club scenes, and a near endless array of captured, incidental sounds from across the globe - delivering newly imagined perceptions of place, where memory is recalled here through abstract, textured sound with hallucinatory effect.

Immersive, vast, and stunningly ambitious, Flora Yin-Wong’s Holy Palm invigorates the medium of musique concrete with astounding effect. Challenging, rhythmically mesmerizing, and moody as hell, it’s captured our hearts and won’t let them go.