Baths - Romaplasm

“This must be the airship, and are these your fellow crew? / Where are we headed?”, ‘Romaplasm’ begins, and the next 45 minutes feel like a trip to an alternate universe. Swirling, other-worldly synths aside, Baths’ new record is still brutally human, and all the better for it.

He battles with sexual identity on highlight ‘Human Bog’ (“I’m queer in a way that’s failed me / I’m not enough of anything”), while ‘Adam Copies’ is a furiously hyperactive shot in the arm. Expanding the instrumental side of the project to paths previously untrodden, while also presenting his most hard-hitting lyrics to date - combined with his sweetest vocal melodies yet - ‘Romaplasm’ is Baths’ at his finest.