Feorm Falorx

Released in 2022 on Warp Records, Feorm Falorx is a conceptual milestone in Plaid's extensive discography. The album is framed as a performance for an intergalactic festival on the planet Falorx, a narrative conceit that allows Ed Handley and Andy Turner to lean into their most 'alien' sonic tendencies. While maintaining the duo's signature melodic sensibility, the album incorporates more aggressive digital textures and complex rhythmic structures than their previous outing, Polymer. It serves as a synthesis of their career-long fascination with the intersection of technology and emotion. Critics noted the album's high-fidelity production, which utilizes modern synthesis techniques to create a sense of three-dimensional space. It stands as a testament to Plaid's longevity, proving they can still innovate within the IDM genre they helped define thirty years prior.