IMOGEN HEAP
Ellipse
(RCA)
British chanteuse Imo gen Heap creates tapes tries of affecting—if un specific—emotion by stitching together bleeps, bloops, and, above all, scraps of her own haunting voice. With her focus on the atmospheric, it’s no wonder that Heap’s biggest success has come via soundtrack work: Her transporting “Hide and Seek” perfectly captured the mid-2000s emo ennui of The O.C. and various Zach Braff films. Ellipse, her third album, does not stray from the formula, with one exception: the bitchy “Bad Body Double.”
