Bibio is something of a musical chameleon. Not many artists have the confidence to take a sharp left-turn from sumptuous synth-funk to spectral ambient in the space of two albums, but Stephen Wilkinson has never been afraid to experiment.
It’s a testament to the singularity of Wilkinson’s production, however, that both projects - the glossy, playful grooves of 2022’s BIB10 and the elegiac drone of this year’s Phantom Brickworks (LP II) - while both departing from the tape-worn alt-folk for which he’s best known, somehow sound recognizably his own.
