Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Album Review: Eat Lights; Become Lights - Autopia (Uncut)

3/5
Impressive kosmische debut from London three piece

Given their acknowledged debt to krautrock – their second 7” was called ‘Klustered’ and they’ve toured with Silver Apples – it’s perhaps unfair to expect new tricks from these strangely monikered revivalists. Fortunately their debut’s mixture of motorik rhythms, droning guitars and swirling electronics is exciting enough, with ‘Dark Matter’’s especially fierce assault recalling both Trans Am and Sheffield’s underrated Plone. Debut single ‘They Transmit’ and the unimaginatively titled ‘Musik For Motorways’ showcase a gentler side, but the towering, ten minute ‘All Aboard’, complete with sci-fi spoken word samples, proves that hackneyed constituent parts never prevent them from taking off.
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