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The increasingly fascinating Living Rainbow project evolves one step further with this latest tape of DIY pop experimentation that expresses equal love for Dan Treacy, Dreams Less Sweet-era Psychic TV and the kind of bedroom mysticism that defined the fabled Cordelia label. I've long admired what INFOrmatION! have been putting out, perfectly dressed cassettes seemingly made undercover by the same set of people under a variety of different names, be that Sanctuary of Praise, Holy City or, as here, The Living Rainbow. Nonetheless, this latest collection does really seem like some kind of highpoint is being reached. A less forgiving soul might argue that previous Living Rainbow tapes have been guilty of wearing their Television Personalities adoration a little too clearly on their sleeve. Not so here. This is a much stranger - and better for it - concoction of songs, all backwards guitars, bubbling synths and skittering drum machines, sometimes adorned with vulnerable vocal interjections, sometimes left to just meander to some undefined abstract conclusion. This is the spirit right here. Doing it for the sake of doing it and making it beautiful, too. Really, no further notes required. 10/10.
FFO: Television Personalities, Amos and Sara, And The Native Hipsters, Psychic TV, Milk From Cheltenham
