BIOGRAPHY
Samuel Thomas Shepherd, known as Floating Points, is a British electronic musician, DJ and producer who studied piano at Chetham's School of Music before earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience and epigenetics at University College London, where his research examined pain responses and RNA expression in neurons. He DJed at London's Plastic People club in the late 2000s and began releasing music as Floating Points in 2008, the same year he and Alexander Nut launched the Eglo record label. His 2015 debut album Elaenia earned a Metacritic score of 85 for universal acclaim, followed by Crush in 2019 (Metacritic 81). In 2021 he released Promises, a collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra that was nominated for the Mercury Prize and reached number six on the UK Albums Chart. His third album, Cascade, arrived via Ninja Tune in 2024 to further critical acclaim.