Sacha Sacket’s debut album Alabaster Flesh is a musical hybrid of modern electronic detachment and sensitive folk-auteur balladeering, a combination that is both disquieting and refreshingly imaginative. His most striking musical mainstays – ardent, inspired piano and sultry baritone vocals – are injected with muted dancehall beats, bleak dark-wave synths, numinous atmospherics and intimately reflective lyricism. The eleven original songs on his first release are manic, inspired, self-searching and wrenchingly beautiful, and they showcase Sacket’s talent at fusing haunting confessionals and panoramically wistful orchestration. Sacket’s biggest achievement, however, is what lies beneath his songs: an invigoratingly mature and post-electronic musical vision that ultimately establishes him as the next vital singer-songwriter to emerge onto the American rock scene.

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