Logic1000 builds her second album out of other voices
Samantha Poulter's second Logic1000 album is about learning to trust her own judgment. She made it with seven collaborators, and a guest takes half the tracks.
BY JOLT Staff · OCT 4 2026 · 3 min readConfirmation is a record about self-trust that keeps handing the microphone to someone else. Samantha Poulter's second album as Logic1000 runs ten tracks and names seven collaborators, with a guest credited in the title of five. The subject is solitary; the method is crowded.
Poulter records from London now, after six years in Berlin. She grew up in Yarrawarrah, on the edge of Sydney, and released as DJ Logic until a cease-and-desist moved her on; Logic1000 relaunched in 2019. Four Tet put her in a Coachella set, remixes for Caribou, Shygirl and Dua Lipa followed, and the debut album Mother landed in 2024. The reworks of mother :;~ rebirth came next, then her DJ-Kicks entry in March 2025, a slower, softer mix that set two of her own tracks beside Oklou, Smerz, Saya Grey and Blood Orange. Four Tet, Floating Points and Caribou have co-signed her. For most of her life, she has said, she carried a distrust of other people and an equal distrust of herself.
“Self trust is new to me, but since ‘Mother’ I feel like I have actively been working towards it being a deeply ingrained part of my identity.”
The new album was made with Tom McAlister, her partner and co-producer, who records as Big Ever. The two worked in a sound neither had much experience in and followed their noses. She calls herself untechnical and prefers analogue synths and raw takes. It arrives via Therapy under licence to Because Music; Therapy is also the name on her podcast and Substack, where she talks about motherhood and mental health in music. Of finishing it she has said: 'I think life and people are constantly evolving. I don't believe I reached any kind of destination once I made this record.'
Her music runs on euphoric melody, and this album keeps that while changing who is in the room. '48 Fairmount' opens it and is gone in a minute and 35 seconds, a sketch that sets the tone and the shortest thing here. 'All In For You' comes next, the lead single, with KUČKA, who wrote the words, and it is still the best thing on the record. Its lyric chases an answer that stops mattering once you stand far enough back to see the whole frame.
The guests then come in a block. 'Jersey' pairs her with Jam City. 'The Way I Change' follows it, four words that state the album's argument, and then 'The Only One' with Christine and the Queens takes the biggest swing, the longest track here at just over four minutes. Side two opens with '2Love', the shortest of the collaborations, the one that hands FAUZIA the room. 'The Girl' is her second time with yunè pinku, after 'What You Like' on the 2021 EP In The Sweetness of You, and it is the clearest line back to where she was five years ago.
Then everyone leaves. 'Sparkle' is where the record takes its breath before the title track, which takes its time, second only to 'The Only One' in length and ninth of ten, with 'Forgiven' behind it as the closer. The writing holds across those last two: memory, childhood, a life that keeps changing shape, flaws that do not need fixing. That is where the album finally argues with itself.
This sits beside the softer end of the electronic records that crossed into pop over the past few years: Oklou's hush, Fabiana Palladino's songwriting, the Blood Orange records that live near this one. It is for people who took Mother home and stayed through the reworks and the mix series. Anyone who wants the club first should know what they are getting: a record built for headphones, with a long guest list.
The shape is the problem. Seven collaborators, five credited features, and every guest has arrived by the eighth track. After that the album has to close alone, and the last two songs carry weight the collaborations had been carrying. The tension at the middle of the record, a producer whose whole subject is trusting her own judgment while surrounded by other people's, never gets tested until the final stretch. It gets resolved instead.
Confirmation is a 3.5: good, and more interesting than most records of its kind, with one of the year's best singles in 'All In For You'. The collaboration is the pleasure and the risk, and the album leaves both on the table. 'All In For You' is the best argument she makes here. The two tracks after 'The Girl' are where the argument runs out.
