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The title track of LFO‘s second album
Advance (1996) kicks off the proceedings in style, with a slow-building but irresistible pulse over which panoramic, glistening arpeggios and rhythmically off-kilter bleeps contrast with dark, edgy drones. The perfect soundtrack to the quiet opening of a nature documentary, or a war movie.
But this is just the calm before the storm. ‘Shut Down’
takes things up a pace with an energetic and thunderous romp, and ‘Loch Ness’
takes cues from both Baroque music, with its harpsichord-like opening synth stabs, and 80s synth-pop, with reverberating snare drums and soaring synth strings galore. What follows next is