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2016 reissue, 2×12″ LP, Erased Tapes. Includes bonus LP of remixes.
Given his ubiquity over the last 12 months, it would be fair to call 2015 ‘the year of Nils Frahm’. His first release of 2016 is something of a curveball, featuring as it does new remixes of tracks from his 2012 full-length, Screws, an album that the artist says was inspired by “fans and friends”. Fittingly, Screws Reworked not only contains Frahm’s original album – a heartfelt, poignant collection of evocative piano compositions – but also a new disc of interpretations submitted by fans. By and large, these are excellent, and veer from dusty, spaced-out ambience (see Bug Lover’s remix of “You”, and Helios’ string-drenched version of “Re”) and hushed dub techno (the Soul Channel remake of “Mi”), to lilting modern classical (Sebastian Freij’s take on “La”), and glistening, stripped-back electronica (the superb Analogue Dear interpretation of “Me”). – Juno
