After two albums of futuristic dubstep that dated rather quickly, Fatima Al Qadiri has settled on a form from the past that suits her style beautifully. The languid arabesques of Medieval Femme – inspired by the poems of medieval Arab women – draw on the soundtrack she composed for Senegalese director Mati Diop’s 2019 film Atlantics, conjuring profound moods with a decaying chord or rococo flourish. Here she uses softsynths to emulate an organ, lute and pipes, which combine on the likes of “Vanity” and “Qasmuna (Dreaming)” to cast an alluring spell, evoking the likes of vintage Boards Of Canada and Catarina Barbieri’s superb Ecstatic Computation.