What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

I'm sure this has been reviewed here before, but the search facility objected to the shortness of the words, and I can't confirm whether it has or not...

A rare impulse purchase for me. Spotted it at a bargain price on Amazon, and mindful that it won the Mercury Music prize for best album of last year, I bought it unheard. Don't usually go much on music awards, but the Mercury has thrown up some fine winners over the years.

The Allmusic review cast them as Young Marble Giants soundalikes, and I felt that was a leap of imagination too far at first. However, by the album's end I could hear what they're talking about. It shares the hushed, spare, & fragile nature of YMG, but the drum machines used are 30 years more advanced.

Fresh and imaginative, this is the best thing I've heard for a while...