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Loving Nobody Life can be tough if you live in the shadow of what used to be known as trip-hop. The genre, if it was ever actually a genre, has long been consigned to history, along with Goa Trance and speedcore. Alpha, of course, were never trip-hop. But almost twenty years after they became the first signing on Massive Attack's Melankolic label, they remain on the periphery of European electronica when they really should be right at the centre of its gently pulsing synthetic heart. Now relocated somewhere deep in the French countryside, Alpha mainman Corin Dingley has spent a Scott Walker-esque seven years crafting Loving Nobody and it is well worth the wait. Darker and more noirish than the woozy 2am Bacharach feel they are often associated with, the new sound is both heavier and more inventive. Slabs of synth orchestration combine with all manner of fractured sci-fi fiddling that makes every second of the hour plus running time a captivating one. There's drums too, loose wriste
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