This is a release of Three Tracks. Leading off is The Duke, a swaggering march through desert sands, acompanied by the very concept of The Riff, The Drum Roll, The Palm-muted-And-Catchy-Like-The-Cold Chorus, not to mention the all important addition of The HORSE The Band-esque Synth Solo. Suffice to say, it’s great like the very fact that you are alive. In fact, The Duke already has Drownedinsound.com frothing at the mouth, giving it barely enough time to say that it is a standout track of the recent Engine Room compilation and a “dramatic goth/cajun/metal/theatrical mash-up”. Meanwhile, track two, Algiers, re-writes Camus through the medium of thunderous drums, galloping nordic metal and slick half-time beatdowns.

Let us not forget the last track, my friends, oh my goodness no. The Talk Less, Say More remix of The Duke is a thing of absurd fist-pumping dancability that although tempered by a shot of sleazy 808 hip-hop will no doubt be lighting up dancefloors across the land that are already weary of all things new rave and wish to hear something merely rave. Albeit rave that has a strangely cavernous, sinister quality and an ecclesiastical edge, that is so FUTURE that it has a spaceman hat, a Jestons bubble car and a unlicensed ray-gun, yet so PAST that it owns a ruff, a pyramid and a really amazing hi-hat from the 1980s. I literally cannot listen to it enough, an infection you too will no doubt sucumb to upon hearing it.

Exciting times.

On a completely different note: rest in peace Jean Baudrillard, Philosopher, who died on Tuesday. Respect is always due to the man who can write sentences like “Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia” or invent the concept of the map proceeding the territory while observing “Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public”.

Goth/Cajun/Metal/Theatrical mashup indeed sir! Get it while its still in interweb stores and still hot like piping hot oven cakes.

The CD is a twenty track summary of some of Leeds’ most bitchin acts. Also featured are the magical Vessels, This Et Al, Immune, Napoleon IIIrd, Shut You Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames (Twin Peaks reference ahoy!)… and many many more.

We’re also playing a gig for The Engine Room fellas at the Grapes in Sheffield on the 28th of this month, and negotiating for a possible single release next year. Hell yeah!