5/19 - The Soundcarriers

With all the electronic music making a thumping comeback, it's nice occasionally to sit back and listen to something with it's feet firmly planted in chunky, shimmering analog bliss. The Soundcarriers are happy to provide. The quartet, from Nottingham, seem to draw equal influences from the spooky psych-sounding minor and major7 chord orchestrations of the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack, the jazz-like improv of Krautrock giants CAN, and late '60's European baroque pop acts like the Free Design or the Incredible String Band. Taken together in their debut single, "I Had a Girl," all these influences class them in a modern context with some of Stereolab's earlier more ruminitive efforts, and even moreso with the likes of the sublime Broadcast.

It's almost easier imagining this music in the long lost soundtrack to a 1960s British coming-of-age film, than it is conceiving of it being released this month. But there's no dust on this one, it does in fact become available for the first time on May 25th.



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