Following on from the enigmatic "Tape 05" earlier this year, Scottish electronica legends, Boards of Canada, have dropped a whole new album, "Inferno", which is –in a word– "lush". Sticking to their classic formula of chopped up spoken word over wash synths, the whole album seeps into your mind leaving you feeling unsettled. This is a good thing. At times channelling Nine Inch Nails, others Aphex Twin, this is a darker –bassier– album than their previous output. I like it a lot. I've seen a few people chatting about Bulgarian Cartrader so I thought I'd check them out. Not least because of the "genre defying" tag that accompanied some of the recommendations. I was not as impressed as other listeners. Album opener, "LAB" gives you a good idea of what to expect. Props due to Daniel Stoyanov for, in another life, writing songs for both Peter Fox and Seeed. Remember Them Crooked Vultures? Josh Homme, John Paul Jones, and Dave Grohl's supergroup? They wanted to be called "Caligula" but the…
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