The boldest production choice of the week is also the simplest: don’t fix the vocals. Saskia — the Devon-born, London-based songwriter — left her voice completely untuned across her new EP *Wearing All White Like An Angel* (Black Butter Records, October 9), and the result is a five-track study in light versus dark that feels more human for it.

The EP moves between drum-and-bass energy and lullaby stillness, circling personal change with ethereal electronic soul and leftfield R&B production. Sessions with Bob Mackenzie shifted toward recording in the room, and you can hear the difference — there’s air around everything, and the untuned vocals sit in it like they’re daring you to call it imperfection. It’s a genuine aesthetic stance, not a gimmick, and it gives the record its spine.

Saskia’s résumé keeps growing in interesting directions: her vocals were sampled on Don Toliver’s “Secondhand,” and she features on Bicep’s “Viper” from their new Ninja Tune three-track EP *Air / Lemonder / Viper* (alongside Clark and SOARR). BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music backed her debut EP *The Noise* (2025), and her cited touchstones — James Blake, Radiohead, Sampha, Yebba, Massive Attack — map cleanly onto what she’s actually doing.

Clash ran a feature on October 6, Wonderland published a long-form interview on release day. The editorial voice is the kicker — she describes herself as a happy girl making sad music, and the EP makes that tension audible. “Wearing all white” is the title track in spirit if not in name: purity as provocation. One of the most considered releases on this Ten.

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koNj5bdHkIk

Rating: 4.6/5