Penelope Trappes: Heavenly Spheres

The Bristol-based artist channels ghosts on tape

There’s not been a shortage of interesting new albums recently, but I’d been waiting for a special one to deeply enchant me – until I heard Heavenly Spheres on a rainy, stormy night here in rural Northern Germany.

These eight gothic vignettes consist of sparse piano chords, field recordings and a ghostly voice singing mostly unintelligible lyrics. They’r…