Sholto: The Sirens LP

Gilles Peterson-championed cinematic maestro Sholto returns with his third album in three years. Following the epic, sprawling odyssey of 2024's double album ‘Letting Go Of Forever’, his new project, ‘The Sirens’, builds upon the groove-rooted, string-soaked dreamscapes and ethereal textures upon which he's built his name, this time inverting the beauty into a haunting fever dream. Deeply cinematic at its core, the album's tender jazz harmonisations flow into a moving undercurrent of strings and harp, anchored by Sholto's rhythmic sensibility and dramatic vocal cues that drift in and out across the record's 12 tracks. The record is emotionally unflinching, exploring themes of duality, temptation, and emotional dislocation, in Sholto's words, "blurring grief with groove, seduction and surrender".