Album Review: Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun

Under The Sun is an interesting new project from Mark Pritchard.

It's a gentler record that attempts to slow things down and examine the details, the small loops and quiet moments that usually hide in the gaps of his broader work. Everything feels fragile, from the pastoral melancholy of Give It Your Choir (with Bibio, natch), to the half-speed stripped-back Cocteau Twins-esque You Wash My Soul with folk singer Linda Perhacs, to the Bjork-ish collaboration with Thom Yorke, Beautiful People. Despite Pritchard's healthy sense of curiosity (perhaps because of it), there's no unifying idea to tie everything together, and it hurts an otherwise charming album.