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Review: Beguiling, bewitching, enchanting and immersive. Sui Zhen's album draws the listener in with beauty and loveliness, while giving us something to think about. Namely human mortality, and whether or not we might all be able to live on as digital footprints. It's all very "Black Mirror", welcome to the 21st Century meditation on death, then. Despite this the record is far less conceptual than you might imagine, with tracks like "I Could Be There" conjuring images of Lykke Li or Regina Spektor's more advert-friendly offerings. "Natural Progression", "Another Life" and "Different Places" stick to more downtempo electronic scripts, perfectly contrasting the pop and jazz elements of "Being A Woman" and "Mountain Song" respectively. Hard to put a finger on without resorting to a series of name drops, your best bet is just to dive in and get lost in what's a very deep and multifaceted album that somehow still manages coherency.