I have always been a fan of David Lynch. He is one of the few filmmakers that can make a film with as much depth as a novel, full of bizarre symbolism and disorientation, but without losing the main thread of the story. But when I watched ‘Mulholland Drive’, I found myself somewhat at a loss; it seemed as though there were at least three different films condensed into one script. So when I was asked, “So, did you like it?” I had absolutely no answer. How can you know if you like something if you have no idea what it is about? Of course, everyone can appreciate things on a purely aesthetic level, but can we really ‘like’ something that confuses us? This is exactly how I felt after listening to Sound Team’s “Movie Monster”. It is an album that, for all its abundance of ideas, is ultimately hard-to-follow and rather confusing. At times, the lyrics are hidden behind a wall of noise, or below metronomic blips and beeps, leaving songs meandering toward their conclusion without any real focus. The album does wear its influences on its lapel though; throughout, Sound Team recall Can, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads, My Bloody Valentine, The Jam, U2, Spoon, The Rapture, Pink Floyd and Wolf Parade. While this is quite an awe-inspiring list, I still have no idea what Sound Team actually sound like. “Movie Monster” is more akin to a collection of odes, each song representing a particular set of influences: ‘TV Torso’ = Can/The Rapture; ‘Afterglow Years’ = My Bloody Valentine; ‘No More Birthdays’ = Spoon; ‘Movie Monster’ = Kraftwerk/Pink Floyd and so forth. It is certainly not a bad album, per se, but it is not really an album in the sense that it should showcase a band’s song-writing and own intrinsic sound. Hopefully Sound Team are not a band short on ideas, simply taking them from miscellaneous musical sources (as other reviewers have treated them) and are merely a band who are finding it hard to uncover their own unique identity. Perhaps when I hear their next album, I will be able to decide whether or not I actually like them.