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My one complaint about so many albums today is lack of consistency. How often do you get one cracking track in amongst a load of mediocrity? When I came to transfer all my favourite music onto my iPod recently I found that I ended up downloading 3,000+ tracks from1,000+ albums, in other words an average of about 3 tracks per album. It’s a mark of a good album when you iPod the whole thing and this was the case with Imogen Heap’s Ellipse.

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Ellipse is a delight from beginning to end, the music mesmerising and flowing, but it’s chill-out with a bite. This is no collection of songs that is going to send you to sleep. As every track ends you await what follows with anticipation and intrigue. This is exquisite electronic layering of sound with synthesisers and classical instrument dancing together in rhythmic patterns.

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Imogen Heap is such a huge talent; she produces, engineers, programmes, arranges, songwrites and sings. She could probably play most of the instruments as well (proficient at keyboards, guitar, strings, percussion) but does get the help from some big names here including Leo Abrahams, famous for his collaborations with Brian Eno and Nitin Sawhney, who has had four albums as a solo artist in his own right.

Imogen’s songwriting is mature, slightly oblique but well suited to the music that she writes. Who would expect straightforward lyrics with such complex music? Her voice is slightly husky but strong and powerful, and blends in beautifully with the instrumentation throughout.

The immense vocal range is very evident on Swoon, one of my favourite tracks on the album. Other highlights are the intimate Between Sheets and the sublime Canvas.

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