- Sorry, this product cannot be purchased.
Worth a buy on the strength of the rather fetching Czech new wave/pulp fiction-inspired cover alone, which is a typically eye-catching design by Ghost Box’s resident visual genius, Julian House. The music on Beautify Junkyards’ third album offers instant gratification too, as the Lisbon collective strike up a woozy amalgam of esoteric English psych-folk and Brazilian tropicalia. There’s also tinges, of kosmische and an underlying hauntological vibe (this is Ghost Box, remember) adding an eerie, dystopian edge. It’s splendid stuff, but then you’d expect nothing less from a band whose beatific cover versions of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radioactivity’ and Nick Drakes’ ‘From The Morning’ were as dizzyingly good as the originals. And as with their first two LPs, there’s much to love here — standouts include the swirling ‘Sybil’s Dream’, channelling Broadcast’s wistful retro-futurism, and the transcendental Os Mutantes-like ‘Manhã Tropical’. Anything but invisible, it’s a bewitching album that you’ll warm to immediately. – Velimir Ilic, Electronic Sound
You may also like...
Day By Day (Vinyl)
White Flowers
Beginning to reverberate a monolithic sound of their own. Blue vinyl edition.
Orange Synthetic (CD)
Cobalt Chapel
Psych-infused chamber pop with echoes of Broadcast and Delia Derbyshire. The follow-up to their much lauded self-titled debut album.
Dreaming Eden (Vinyl)
Kyron
An electronic reverie comprised of drifting melodies, dusty archive sounds and synthesised rhythms. 500 copies on orange vinyl with artwork by Kyron and Jim Jupp. Plus download code.
Peel Sessions (1989-1990) (Vinyl)
Cranes
The band’s John Peel Sessions collected for the first time. Black vinyl with a worldwide pressing of 500 copies.
Witchcraft Murders (Vinyl)
Heartwood Institute
“…atmospheric melodicism that will delight fans of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.” Limited Edition Blue Vinyl. Hand numbered – 300 copies only. Plus free promo poster!