sei a: space in your mind

Scottish producer Sei A presents his third album, Space in Your Mind. Sei A is Andy Graham, an ever-evolving producer who has cooked up many different shades of house and techno since emerging in 2008. With work that moves from dark and melodic to swinging and bass-heavy, Graham is not one to repeat the same trick twice, as his two previous albums and more than 15 EPs on labels like Turbo, Life and Death, Kompakt, Simple, and Aus Music have shown. As if to cement the point, this full-length finds Graham straying from the dancefloor to cook up an album that stands up to introspective home-listening. "The LP came from writing a lot of music in a short space of time," says Graham. "I felt I had grasped a sound and I wanted to expand it further. Musically I was finding that the material had much more space within the sound, with the main structure of it being melodies, therefore giving it quite a rich feel throughout. I was also aiming to expand on writing actual songs that take in verse/chorus, verse/chorus structures." And he has sure accomplished that, because with the help of guest collaborators Will Samson and Daudi Matsiko on four tracks, Space in Your Mind is an absorbing listen with melodies and vocal lines sure to linger in the listener's memory.