This Isle of Man three piece remain, for me, the band against whom all others in the current millennium must be measured.
Their existence spanned a mere three years and, in that time, they produced four stunning albums and became a mainstay of both my show and the wider Dandelion Radio landscape. They didn't misstep once, producing a glorious motorik-driven drone around which Mike Seed's loosely weave.
Reviewing their Alchemical Postcards album in 2011, I called it in my now defunct Unwashed Territories blog 'the latest in a series of mesmerising releases by what we must now surely label the world's best band.'
Their appeal hasn't waned with time. Assisted by Neil Whitehead of Vert:x, they released one final album - Winter Arcade - in 2012 before disappearing from our lives. Mike Seed and Richard Quirk have released some fine solo material since then but it's no disservice to their solo output to say that nothing - either by them or anyone else - has matched the chemistry that this band conjured up together during that period.
In this month's Dandelion show, I'm playing a track from their first Dandelion Radio session, recorded for Pete Jackson's show in September 2009. You can get it at the band's bandcamp site, which also has all four albums available for download:
Index of Spirits (2010)
Alchemical Postcards (2011)
Winter Arcade (2012)
Also available on the site are the two Pete Jackson sessions, a session they recorded for my show in collaboration with Vert:x and a Christmas tune specially recorded for my show in 2009.
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