Months later I picked up the album again at Rough Trade. As the artwork suggests, this album is very minimalist - nothing big, grandiose or epic here but instead, electric, bassy synth and drum sounds, topped with Damo Suzuki-esque vocals fill the album.

Like a lot of 'electric'-based music, I find that this album waivers in its ability to hold my attention. True, there are some killer choruses here but there's also a hell of a lot of dry verses that just switch me off.. and when you realise they weren't Japanese ("we were only pretending to be Japanese") and are instead a trio from Brighton then a bit of the magic fades bleach white, like the album cover.

Craig Sharp