Shackleton & Wacław ZimpelBest Shackleton & Wacław Zimpel Albums Ranked

Primal Forms

loudandquiet

9.0

“There’s a stir of excitement to be felt whenever Wacław Zimpel’s name appears on a new record sleeve. Even though you suspect that “greats” are idols of a bygone musical era, it’s easy to feel that the story of the Polish composer is similar to a traveling troubadour’s, a figure who, alto clarinet in tow, finds himself paired with disparate musicians across the continent, before promptly moving al”

Primal Forms

pitchfork

7.7

“The Polish clarinetist Wacław Zimpel blows away the cobwebs from Sam Shackleton’s often shadowy psychedelia, adding a celebratory force to the English electronic musician’s hypnotic minimalism.”