Wildly original, Morten Qvenild turns on his head notions of how piano and synths interact by simply doing it all here on this solo record that sounds like an orchestra and feels like a beautiful vision.

Familar from In the Country and sPaceMonkey Qvenild is a game changing polymath like his fellow countryman Bugge Wesseltoft but this is a world away from nu jazz. More attuned to the lingua franca of electropop and influenced by a whole load of stuff gleaned from intelligent listening, reading and personal experiences Calvin Harris’ electropop smash for Rihanna ‘We Found Love’ gatecrashes in to be meticulously picked apart and reassembled by what sound like robots. Personal Piano surely marks a departure and not just because of the darkly atmospheric vocoderised vocals here and there complete with creaking atmospherics say on the remarkably poignant ‘Past’. Integrating electronics via keyboards and piano might be something of a thankless, futile task in lesser hands than Qvenild’s who seems to have written a brand new manual for the whole palaver. Poetic and moving in its very best bits, there are quite a few of them dotted all over, some of the ideas and power of execution here might simply blow your mind.

UK release: 4 September