On his recent EP Cindy, London-based rapper 03CAS provides a fractured portrait of his mind and the city that surrounds it. The EP’s closing track is the cryptically titled “Moscow,” a song structured around what sounds like a cut-up guttural moan. The fragments vibrate urgently, manipulated until they sound natural as field recordings; when the drums kick in, they’re gentle, almost hypnotic. An organ-like melody plays in the distance, supplying a note of elegy.

Over this entrancing backdrop, 03CAS lays out elliptical verses that sound more like broken-down poetic asides. The song’s power comes from its use of space in both lyrics and instrumentation: It inhabits the nighttime territory laid out by Dean Blunt, where phrases echo in the back of your head and style is prized above all else. On “Moscow,” 03CAS unites this fragmentation with concrete objects, bringing a physicality to his abstract longing. When 03CAS says, “We sleep upstream with dutty kneecaps/My bloody ease that malice in ya teeth,” he’s more interested in creating indelible images than an easy-to-follow narrative. Yet a narrative develops anyway, and a line like, “Eager to leave in leagues fondlin’ demons,” sketches out a night spent with friends, chasing feelings that leave you feeling empty. It’s a moody triumph.