I’m Listening to Nils Frahm’s All Melody

Nils Frahm has a new album out today.

To record All Melody, Frahm designed his dream studio inside Berlin’s historic Funkhaus complex, rewiring the cables, installing a pipe organ, and building a custom mixing desk. Then, like a kid in a candy store, he created one of his most meticulous and adventurous albums yet. A delicate mix of ambient meditations (“The Whole Universe Wants to be Touched”), wandering piano melodies (“My Friend the Forest”), and staccato, Latin-leaning grooves (“A Place,” “Kaleidoscope”), it’s an absorbing study of atmosphere that’s full of surprises.

Synthesizers and new music, it’s pretty much everything I love.