Someone Close

The tempo is nominally 133bpm, yet the energy barely crests above a murmur, as Floating Points stretches that grid into something far more nebulous. It is ambient electronica in the truest sense: layers of tonal drift in Db major that float rather than lock, creating a humid stasis where every decay tail feels deliberately endless. There is no drop, only deepening.

In a set, this belongs to the comedown or the cautious warm-up, a palate-cleanser that recalibrates the room’s relationship to tempo entirely. Ninja Tune’s catalogue has always housed such leftfield curios, and this sits comfortably in that lineage—too restless to be pure wallpaper, yet too subdued to demand the floor. It is music for listening with eyes closed, not feet moving.