Telepathy ft. Jo Quail – Home (Redux)
Telepathy share “Home (Redux)”, a collaboration with cellist and composer Jo Quail drawn from their upcoming EP “Transmissions 2.0” on Pelagic Records. Where their 2024 record “Transmissions” first introduced synthesisers, electronic textures, and cinematic layering to their post-metal sound, this new EP takes that direction further — handing tracks to a set of outside collaborators and asking them to rebuild rather than remix.
Jo Quail was the obvious choice for this one. Telepathy first came across her at Dunk! Festival in 2018 and have been tracking her work since. “We were literally stopped in our tracks by her performance”, the band say. “Her music feels both organic and futuristic — cello meets live looping — so conceptually, as we re-imagined our full band music into a more electronic space, she felt like the natural collaborator.” That description holds up in the track: Quail’s cello and her live looping approach give “Home” a new structural logic, sitting somewhere between chamber music and ambient electronics without fully becoming either.
The source material is lean enough that specific production details on the reconstruction are limited, but the approach is clear from the result — the original’s weight is still there, just redistributed. What strikes me is how the collaboration doesn’t soften the piece so much as reframe it: the cello carries melodic weight that the band’s guitars would usually handle, and the looping creates a kind of density that earns its space. A smart pairing, and one that makes the full EP worth watching for.
