Singularity

by Jon Hopkins

Type: Album
Released: 4 May 2018
Label: Domino
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 1:15:51
Community rating: 3.83/5 from 10 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Jon Hopkins' 'Singularity' is designed as a continuous experience, charting a course from abrasive, industrial techno to transcendent ambient states. [5, 6, 7] The album's meticulously crafted sound design merges pummeling rhythms and psychedelic electronics with passages of serene piano and ethereal choral music, reflecting a conceptual journey influenced by meditation and trance states. [4, 6, 9, 11] Structurally, the record flows with a narrative arc intended to mirror a psychedelic experience, moving from intense, claustrophobic arrangements to moments of quiet, emotional redemption. [4, 5, 6]

Genres

Descriptors: expansive, textured, synth, soaring, detailed

Tracklist

Credits

Jon Hopkins - written-by, producer, engineer, mixed by, piano
Leo Abrahams - guitar, orchestra choir, orchestrated by [choir]
Emma Smith - strings
Sasha Lewis - programming, sound designer
London Voices - choir
Jon Thorne - double bass
Lisa Elle - vocals
Josephine Stephenson - vocals
Olivia Chaney - vocals
Oliver Griffiths - vocals
Austin Tufts - drums [additional], drum
Chris Clark - drum programming [additional]
Cherif Hashizume - drum programming, mixed by, engineer [add'l], engineer [additional]
Ben Perry - chorus masters
Terry Edwards - chorus masters, chorus master
Stephen McNally - artwork
Ashley Turnell - choir
Christopher J Neale - choir
Freya Jacklin - choir
Helen Brookes - choir
Jo Marshall - choir
Joanna Goldsmith - choir
Julian A. Smith - choir
Matthew Cooper - layout
Paul J Street - layout
Guy Davie - lacquer cut by