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Aug 22, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Genevieve Reeves

Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) is releasing a new album, Cascade, on September 13 via Ninja Tune. Now he has shared its newest single, “Ocotillo,” via a music video. Watch it below.

The song is accompanied by an “Alive Painting” by Tokyo-based artist Akiko Nakayama. The song features Austrian-Ethiopian harpist Miriam Adefris.

Cascade includes the previous singles “Del Oro” and “Brith4000.” When the album was announced, Shepherd shared its lead single, “Key103.”

On the new album, Shepherd embraces his electronic core. In a previous press release, Shepherd had this to say about recording the album: “I have a studio at home with all the gear I usually use, but I wasn’t there so I had to use my laptop, doing it all on headphones. There’s something about Manchester that keeps coming back to me, and I think it’s partly to do with its record shops. As a kid, my school was around the corner from the Northern Quarter so at lunchtimes, I’d run out of the school gates and skip lunch altogether to go and listen to records. I’m sure I was a total pain in the arse constantly pulling records off the shelves, but it was amazing. I’d be listening to Autechre at Pelican Neck, Dilla at Fat City, David Morales mixes at the Factory Records shop…. It gave me a parallel education in music to what I was being taught at school.”

Cascade follows Floating Points’ 2021 album, Promises, which was recorded alongside Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra. It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2021.

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