They really don’t make them like they used to – or at least, no one but Luke Temple does…
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Help Stamp Out Loneliness – Help Stamp Out Loneliness
Help Stamp Out Loneliness is one of those rare collections of songs where there is always more to discover.
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Grumbling Fur – Furrier
a messy soundscape that basically throws the kitchen sink at the Noble Edifice of Krautrock and gets away with its minor act of cultural vandalism
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Mamiffer – Mare Decendrii
Rather like an immense slow-moving river, with hidden currents and eddies, the album plots its patient, primeval course oblivious to the bystanders on the banks.
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Pechenga – Helt Borte
The music is incredibly evocative of frozen wastes and landscapes where nearly nobody lives in
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Waters – Out In the Light
And for all its trad-rockisms, the album’s got a fair bit of personality and presence about it, a rare commodity in these anaemic, academic times.
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Biosphere – N Plants
This isn’t an academic, or chinstroker’s record by any means: you don’t need a degree to enjoy the lovely melodies floating around
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Robots in Disguise – Happiness v Sadness
I bet the temptation to fill out pop fun like Hey Watcha Say, Sink in the Dirt or Lady and the Flies with all manner of sonic gadgetry was a big one. I’m really glad that there’s room in these tracks, it’s confident and sassy music.
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The Vegetable Orchestra – Onion Noise
A fairly thin stew from rich ingredients, I’m afraid.
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Sleeping Dog – With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields
the angst in the record feels real, and thank fuck, we don’t have any of that “softly, softly look at me with my clever instruments while I play a lullaby” nonsense that seems to have overwhelmed this genre recently.
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