James Brooks’ Appliance failed to flog clever clogs electronica to Britpop Britain. His new project, Land Observations, drives the cyclical sound Kraftwerk applied to German autobahns, but at a gentler speed, and along Roman Roads.
The album begins in Hackney with Before The Kingsland Road, tracing Ermine Street north, pointillist pin-pricks of treble guitar bursting out from a chugging 30 mph throb.
It ends, after a lengthy Italian detour, with Battle Of Watling Street, a folktronic elegy for the first century Iceni that fell under Boudica, somewhere on the A2.
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