Juggling Dualities

Hermione “rRoxymore” Frank’s electronic music has been honed through live performance above all else, and it’s given her an almost unrivalled sense of pacing, space and movement. Her third album is extraordinarily gentle and poised on first listen: its New Age ripples of arpeggio, warm bubblebaths of soft ambient chords and gentle deep house pulses in radical contrast to the stark, skittering, rhythm-driven approach of its 2022 predecessor Perpetual Now. But as soon as you let it surround you, you realise it’s also very kinetic, with little details flying around you like birds and insects. It’s still gloriously calming and nourishing to have on, but it’s also got all the sense of bodily movement absorbed from years of playing in club spaces, and keeps on giving more and more the more you listen.