There are so many leftfield bands operating within the Broadcast / Stereolab tradition that it's fast becoming a cliche. Welsh band Islet are just the latest, and their new album Eyelet puts the gard in avante with plenty of leftfield burps and rumbles.
It's a diverting record though not an essential one in the way that labelmates Vanishing Twin blistering The Age of Immunology was last year. Perhaps Eyelet marks the point where the unpredictable actually crosses the line to become predictable. Still, there are some nice moments here.
The album's finest track is Geese, the single which went before it where things fall into place to wonderful effect and you get the impression that you're present at a full on druid sacrificial ceremony with all its attendant weird splendour. That's certainly worth a listen and I'd say the rest of the record is too though sometimes the band's full on surrender to the daftness within rather lost me.
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