Edition 1 is the first of four collaborative albums between Kevin Martin’s King Midas Sound and luminaries from the murkier depths of electronic music, the opening gambit from Fennesz that cultivates a haunting attraction. Opening track Mysteries could initially mistaken for a morphine-laced Death in Vegas track. But instead of erupting into chuggy disco, it swirls around solemnly, before dissipating into something altogether more sinister – the following eight tracks on this beautiful, epic but unsettling album. Edition 1 is a sprawling, dystopian distillation of King Midas Sound’s sub-aquatic sonics and Fennesz’ swirling soundscapes, as vocalists Roger Robinson and Kiki Hitomi sprinkle forlorn melodies on to phantom rhythm and bass from the dark side of dub.

The 13 hypnotic minutes of Above Water are transcendent; a cracked and broken anthem for a stroll through the afterlife, while We Walk Together is actually terrifying, the nightmarish cascade of a chorus coming courtesy of Hitomi’s otherworldly vocal melody. Relatively speaking, tracks like Lighthouse offer a kind of light relief – discordant but soothing waves that lap against a shore not a million miles away from Dean Blunt’s gentler creations. But for the most part, this engulfing and enigmatic album is a master-class in delicate desolation, and a beautiful merging of two restless electronic innovators.

Adam Corner