Emily Mackay 

The Expanding Flower Planet: Deradoorian review – blossoming grooves

Angel Deradoorian’s debut solo album is a delicious treat
  
  

Angel Deradoorian performing In Portland, Oregon.
‘Worth the wait’: Angel Deradoorian. Photograph: Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns Photograph: Anthony Pidgeon/Redferns

It’s been worth the wait for this debut solo album from former Dirty Projector Angel Deradoorian, who left the US art-pop explorers in 2012. The droney, rambling buds of her 2009 EP Mind Raft blossom here into tauter grooves, drawing on Indian and Middle Eastern sounds, her Armenian heritage, the minimalism of Terry Riley and psychedelic pop. A Beautiful Woman grooves with compulsive tension, Your Creator is both a very strange kids’ TV show theme and the hymn of a new religion, while Komodo shifts between sea-shimmer delicacy and dragon-stomping intent. Deradoorian’s world is as dreamy, hippyish and hipster as her album title suggests and it’s deliciously easy to get lost in it with her.

A Beautiful Woman, from The Expanding Flower Planet by Deradoorian
 

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