Another month, another Broken Chanter ambient EP, and this one sounds if anything even better than the others…
Track one has some overtones of Kraftwerk, entitled ‘Were You Expecting Goose-Stepping’ – a great toe-tapper and electronic workout….shades of ‘We Don’t Need this Fascist Groove Thing’ more like…
‘Alcoholfrei as a bird’ has piano chords, background drones and is again entirely instrumental….
The next one is a cracker – ‘Sharing Afternoon Cans with the Cybergoths’ has shimmering shoegaze fuzz, some stop/start percussion and could well be a Mogwai b-side.. (is it?). Ok it’s not, as the beat takes up into some kind of New Order-esque sequencer-fiesta – not ambient at all, but very good indeed… Christ, who gave him that bit of kit, this could be a whole new direction and Scooter had better watch out….
Last track is ‘Sensory Deprivation Tank Blues’, which is more ambient, albeit also quite scary and industrial – the sampled vocals sound like they are from a bad horror film and this is one tank you would not want to get into…
So more new ground being ploughed and explored… excellent!