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Wilma Archer

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London's Wilma Archer, who made a splash with her 2018 electronic soft jazz masterpiece "Scarecrow" and is known for producing with rising UK soul star Nil?fer Yanya and collaborating with 's big newcomer Sudan Archives, has released her long-awaited first album The talented Wilma Archer has released her long-awaited first album "AWestern Circular". Inspired by John Fante's novels and based on deep musical references from Frank Zappa to Yasuaki Shimizu, Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell, and others, it is as if Wilma Archer had been working on the album for five years. The album is based on John Fante's novel and contains 10 tracks with a bittersweet, sensual mood and a perfect temperature, as if Tom Misch and FKJ were plunged into the deep sea of jazz.The album also features a number of other artists, including "LastSniff," a loungey soft rock monologue by MF Doom; "Decades," a poignant duet between Laura Groves, who recorded her first album for XL, and Samuel T. Herring, vocalist for Future Islands; and "Cheater," featuring Sudan Archives, an ally of the band. Sudan Archives joins "Cheater," and the album also features a lineup of other gorgeous artists.