Fergus Jones

FELT proprietor Fergus Jones - fka Perko - flits to Glasgow dons Numbers to convect his debut album of drowsy downbeat sentiments graced by cameos from Laila Sakini, Huerco S., James K, ELDON & Withdrawn, Lia T, and Koreless.
Cooked with a concision and diversity of flavour that lingers on the mind, ‘Ephemera’ floats his ideas with a poetic subtlety that benefits from a judicious pick of collaborators. A kinship with leading ambient avatar Huerco S. blooms across two contrasting standouts, a mushily doe-eyed hook-up with James K, placing her ‘90s trip-hop vocal thizz on screwed dubstep in ‘Heima’, and lucent dub chord lullaby ‘It Should Be (Free)’ infused by Brian Leeds’ spangled ambient-dub melodies. That dub lean also prompts its central highlight of Rhythm & Sound-gone-pop in a pearlescent ‘Can’t Touch’ with Laila Sakini, bolstered by the shuffling-on-air elegance of ‘Stack’ and piquant electro-dub slink of ‘Heap’.
- A promising, tactfully blissed return by one of the underground’s key, if liminal, hyper-connectors.