GALBRAITH, ALASTAIR - Orb

not since 2000s CRY has alastair galbraithdelivered an album of song-based material.here are 20 new tracks, all hiss and bonesraw hurt and high wonder.-Ç familiar backwards-Ç folk-Ç here not there",-Ç barely-there ballad-fragments-Ç "one direction","tumbling" ,"homesick"-Ç "Short Dream For Fire Organ" where alastairs home-made gas-powered instrument booms-Ç away in a tunnel (pictured on the-Ç back cover)while disembodied-Ç whisperers come and go with you trapped down there under a bad drug"cut"-Ç a very short track of what sounds like 3 frogs 2 locusts and-Ç several clockwork motors recorded in a pigskin bladder. "Head Down" a-Ç hypnotic lullaby-Ç with-Ç swelling rolls of delayed guitar and tidalwashes of vocals. "Cloth Master" which punches you repeatedly,while screaming in your face favourites would have to include the rock-bottom alt-country resignation-Ç of "something happened" and the mirror-imaged "your lilt"-Ç which ends with you waltzing with a skating cello round heaven." - Nextbestway.