• Album review

  • Sand - The Dalston Shroud
    • Sand - The Dalston Shroud

    • Rating: * * * * no star no star
    • Format: Album
    • Label: Soul Jazz
    • Reviewed by John Lewis
    • Posted: Mon Nov 20 2006
  • The fusions made by these ex-music students from York shouldn’t work but, in practice, their chaotic melding of Krautrock, garage punk energy, free-jazz mayhem and glitchy electronica fits perfectly. The trombone sounds like a police siren; the vocals of Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje and Louie Austen sound suitably spooky and disembodied; ‘Stick Eyed Bug Man’ and ‘Doctor Crop’ are like post-rock takes on ‘Warm Leatherette’; and ‘Summer Lightning’ sounds like music from the best film you’ll never see.

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