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• Elaenia, released in 2015, is the debut full-length album by Floating Points (Sam Shepherd). Across its seven expansive tracks, the album fuses electronic, jazz, classical, and ambient elements into a seamless whole. The compositions often unfold slowly, privileging nuance and subtle shifts in texture over overt hooks or rhythms. Shepherd deploys live instrumentationdrums, Rhodes piano, stringsalongside analog synthesizers, giving the music a warm, organic quality even in its more abstract passages. The dream-like title track was inspired by a vision of a migratory bird swallowed by forest, and the album frequently evokes movement, dissolution, and transformation in sound. As an inaugural statement, Elaenia established Floating Points as an artist who values restraint and gradual revelation over bombast. The pacing allows the list