- It's taken several years, a stint in a Welsh-speaking funk band and innumerable James Blake comparisons, but with "Eclipse," Ifan Dafydd has found his groove. Dafydd lived with Blake when they both studied at London's Goldsmiths University, but this one-tracker is some distance from his old flatmate's fragile electro-soul.
Dafydd bundles Rhodes pianos, reversed keys, Arabic strings, double bass, cut-up vocals and frazzled chords to give a concentrated, emotive hit of laidback, jazz-infused house. If it's a taste of things to come, then Dafydd is certainly an artist to watch in 2015.