With his whimsical, melancholic music, Yann Tiersen has become a sought-after composer, not only for his soundtrack work, but in his own right. The Paris-based composer became popular outside his native country for his score to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie, but like most seemingly overnight successes, he had been working for years before the film's success brought him international acclaim.

His new album, Kerber, is a follow up to 2019’s Portrait (a collection of 25 newly recorded tracks from throughout his career), and very much marks a new chapter in the Breton artist’s work, one that begins with his most overtly electronic material to date. True to Tiersen’s nuanced and subtle approach, this isn’t a U-turn-like thumping piece of dance music but instead a beautifully textured, highly immersive and thoughtfully constructed electronic world to step inside of.