His vessel is pop music, whose transversal and experimental potential he exploits to the full. His recent EP Orlando (which takes its name from the character in a Virginia Woolf novel) explores questions of gender, social and emotional constructions. It is a manifesto of electronic music that harnesses the narrative power of song but leaves the listener to find their way through its sometimes melodic, sometimes ambient soundscapes.

Imbued with non-Western influences and sometimes constructed with the help of field recordings, Nelson Beer's music is a laboratory of aesthetic innovations that places the artist in the prestigious lineage of the great transformers of our time, from Holly Herndon to Oneohtrix Point Never via Björk.