…the slow burning ‘2018’, about the heartbreak and desperation of an early relationship. Vocals by longtime collaborator naafi, with backing from Tsatsamis and Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange, create a tapestry of emotion and experimental pop beauty.
Elsewhere, ‘Cherish’ and ‘Angel’, both featuring naafi’s soothing voice backed by TAAHLIAH’s own, are delicate and ethereal, the latter’s refrain of “The world is hard but I’m soft like an angel” accompanied by a saccharine sweet harp melody. Closing track ‘Holding On / Let Me Go’ opens with an otherworldly bagpipe drone, the theatrical elements of the instrumentation continuing in the track’s anthemic harmony-fuelled finish.
- The Quietus
A bright new sound is emanating from Glasgow… bounding, hopeful ambient techno that’s fun and kinetic, conjuring low-cityscapes…gurgling vocal samples floating above the melody, with a sense of spontenaity and analogue improvisation popping round every contour… Short, sweet, and an exciting sign of things to come.
- Electronic Sound Mag
…The full momentum is reached with The Healer, in which naafi adds a beat and a looped, breathy inhalation, interrupting the ambience with a gentle 100 bpm pulse. - The Wire
naafi ricochets between pristine digitalism and something more organic, and humane. New EP ‘UVA’ is out now and it makes for endlessly absorbing listening, the emotional flourish inherent in their work coming to the fore. -CLASH