The Knife/ Mt Sims / Planningtorock: Tomorrow, in a Year

This is not the successor to 2006's Silent Scream by electronic darlings the Knife but, rather, an experimental sidestep. Replete with Amazonian field recordings and musique concrète , Tomorrow, in a Year provides a glitchy 90-minute soundtrack to a Danish opera about Charles Darwin. As such, a mezzo-soprano will often burble over atonal analogue synth passages, illustrating everything from biological processes to the cadences of Darwin's prose. There are pockets of beauty here well worth locating in among the sound of amoebas swimming in primordial soup.