The Focus Group - Hey Let Loose Your Love - 1CD
08/12/2023
GBX005CD
Ghost Box
Artist:
The Focus Group
Label:
Ghost Box
Sound Carrier:
1CD
Barcode:
5057998195091
Pieced together with musty samples from children’s exercise records, vintage drama, clunky British jazz and library records, this is an archaeology of emotion, an exploration of the power of not only childhood memories, but of the collective unconscious.
Julian House’s own The Focus Group; oddly assembled sampledelic collages, stitched together from fragments of library cues and forgotten soundtracks. A beautiful, unhinged stream of consciousness that seems to prod at buried memories.
REVIEWS
Julian Houses's Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the '70s: its a condensed memory of that decade's daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny.
Rob Young, UNCUT
June '05
Tracklisting
Icicle wheel
You do not see me
Clockbell
Echo release
Xylophone signal
Modern Harp
Inside the rubber box
Lifting away
Today’s rhythm people
Hey let loose your love
String Sine romance
The Moon Ladder
Planning for urban green
Swinging phantom
The Thre
Jam-jar carnival
Baroque face
The Leaving
Reflected message