Quimper / Dejado

Operates like the cough syrup-dosed recall of a lost Leloux film, tremulous and unsteady, a sticky ebb and needy pulse of antique futures that is made out of a charming, geeky devotion rather than a distant poster print cool. The guiding aesthetic and patina of acoustic wool keeps everything together. The melodic and percussive invention and just audible vocals serve the atmosphere and thematic conceit a little too slavishly at times, putting BG in front of a potentially more engaging foregrounded M or even TEXT. 

Kramp / Nervous Rattles

Grainy, interior music for clear ears and headphones. Shuffles along a little meekly at first but is heard to best effect on 'Red Faced Demons', rich with congealed tape warp and stress, distant Yoshi Wada-like pipes and frosted with fairground shrieks and close copper cymbal ticks and splash. The housebound guitar of the final track, 'Outro', is a quietly satisfying conclusion.