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Laki Mera » 7 October

Seb Reynolds | Sunday 3 October, 2010 19:04

Laki Mera
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Inspiral Cafe | 250 Camden High Street, NW1 8QS

Drawing influence from their fellow Glaswegian ambient maestros The Blue Nile, Laki Mera create lush textural beds of synths, drones and cello to create a richly ambient bed for the fragile, Liz Fraser-influenced vocals of Laura Donnelly. Recent EP ‘Clutter’ saw rave reviews and, in some quarters, more than occasional references to The XX. The ghost of trip hop past hangs over the band and they’re in no small debt to the work of the Bristollian greats Massive Attack and Portishead, but there’s enough of an edge to the synths to place them in the present and, in Donnelly, they have a wee starlet waiting to spread her wings.

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