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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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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