Listening to "All Rolled Up", the latest track from F ingers, reminds me of the first time I heard Portishead's Dummy and Sun Araw's On Patrol. The Australian trio of Carla dal Forno, Samuel Karmel and Tarquin Manek, have produced a dubby and sensuous trip that has you thinking about more than just what's streaming through your headphones. Led by dal Forno's bittersweet vocals that drift over light techno rhythms, the track sustains a chilled and isolated mood.Taken from their second album Awkwardly Blissing Out, that was recorded in Melbourne and Berlin between 2015 and 2017, the track treads a delicate line between experimentation and introspection.On the website of their label Blackest Ever Black, the band have included some prose including the lines, "When you're sat on your own by the water and someone else decides to sit near you. You don't mind them being there but you don't acknowledge their presence." Like this feeling, "All Rolled Up" evokes uncomfortable though honest reflections.
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'Awkwardly Blissing Out' is available August 25 on Blackest Ever Black.Image: Samuel Davison