Akoma

Akoma

Nearly a decade after her debut album, 2015’s groundbreaking Dark Energy, the Indiana-based producer and composer just might be the best drum programmer in electronic music. And though she’s since been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Music (for “Perspective,” in collaboration with Third Coast Percussion), performed a composition based on the noise of a cotton gin motor at the Whitney Museum, and dabbled with AI alongside the musician Holly Herndon, the sui generis grit of Jlin’s early work remains. On Akoma, she builds logic-defying rhythmic structures that are M.C. Escher-esque, channeling a marching band drum line on “Challenge (To Be Continued II)” and building horror-flick suspense on the white-knuckled “Summon.” The handful of guest appearances (Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, and Björk, the latter contributing to the breathtaking “Borealis”) befit Jlin’s rarified air, but her sound is as singular as ever.

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