Bernard Pucher from Vienna follows last year’s ‘Light Reflects Sound’ EP with a full album for this respected London label. So expect the unexpected as he charts a dark, cinematic course through the subterranean depths and the bowels of a young hippo after a night in the chemical toilet. One moment it fizzes and squirts over dismembered hiphop beats, the next stalks the ghost of Duane Eddy to a moody old movie palace. The atmosphere-building is at its best on outings like the the stuttery electronic sludge tank of the title track or haunting Miles Davis splashes on the jazz-hop crunch of ‘To Die And Be’. He even tries some sinister singing on ‘Victimise’. Not rollicking good fun but evocatively intoxicating and still funky.
4 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: KRIS NEEDS
