Moon Mountain Of The Fords EP by Frog Pocket (BEN 024)

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Something very different in here, seven lush tracks of sombre baroque electronics, with a heavy focus on form and structure, and a depth that distinguishes it from the flood of modern electronica.

The opening track "Jupiter Lady Mountain Village" has a dark gothic feel to it, brimming with elegant dissonance, organ-like chords reverberate against reverbed mettalic percussion. "Oh, The Places You Go!" toys with mangled processed rhythms and a slightly more playful melody, jittering itself into a breakdown of swelling strings and pitch-bent orchestra. "Always Never (Dumfries and Galloway Mix)" again is quite rhythmic - spattered beats flay across a canvas of warm atmospherics and a fragmentary vocal chorus.

Side 2 opens with "Omulad", a melancholic synth carries along subdued drums and etched out percussive emotion, a standout track of mythic proportions, deeply textured, and constantly progressing. "Mountain Lady Jupiter Village", closely related to the first track, "Jupiter Lady Mountain Village", follows it's blueprint, a timeless track of effortless beauty, like a stringed courtly instrument, quite breathtaking and classical. "My Mental Ass", as could perhaps be construed from the title is pretty insane, amen-like breaks cut up and deranged, oscillate through a chain of effects and caterwauls, complimented by a hyperactive melody. The closing track "Hey Hope" is another fervent slice of wistful delicacy, breathy airs, down tempo beats, and celtic like strings.

A soundtrack to late nights and hazy smoke-filled rooms.