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Suzanne Kraft Talk From Home Melody as Truth

10.07.15

There are a couple of potential misconceptions to be cleared up here. First, for the uninitiated, Suzanne Kraft is actually Los Angeles DJ, producer and sometime radio show host Diego Herrera. Second, this sophomore full-length entirely eschews the chunky disco edits that made Herrera a name for himself on the Running Back label (and still favoured by erstwhile stablemates Tiger and Woods).

Instead, Talk From Home cleaves closer to the downtempo kosmische and dream pop Herrera spent time exploring on extended EPs Missum and Horoscope. Whether this is welcome news or otherwise depends on your perspective: obvious standouts like Kraft classics Morning Come and Green Flash are in short supply here but on the other hand, in the process of moving away from bombastic dance music, Herrera has delivered an electronic album possessed of undeniable fragile beauty.

Recorded throughout through the back-end of 2014, Talk From Home’s seven instrumentals move from Male Intuition, which gingerly steps through the sparse wintry landscape of the Durutti Column, through to what feels like a perfect paean to a downtown ‘80s nightscape in Renee Sleeps. Vintage synths and woozy melodies abound across an album that might not get the party started but will certainly bring it down gently.