Anna Meredith - Varmints (2016)

For all its atmospheric diversity, Anna Meredith's 'Varmints', released on Moshi Moshi, is held together by her expert understanding of dynamics. Aside from sharing bills with Anna Calvi, James Blake and These New Puritans, Meredith's dizzying CV includes being Composer In Residence for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, writing a piece for MRI scanner, soundtracking Prada's Spring / Summer 2015 campaign, symphonies created for nursery children, music for park benches in Hong Kong and sleep-pods in Singapore. Recent performances at the BBC Proms have included collaborations with Laura Marling and The Stranglers for the first 6Music Prom, a performance of her body-percussion piece 'Connect It' from the BBC Ten Pieces project and her Last Night Of The Proms composition 'Froms', simultaneously performed by five symphony orchestras across the UK, was broadcast to an audience of 40 million people.