Strange New Worlds V

One of Canada's most underrated new wave bands' debut album, it contains the singles "She Controls Me" and the epic title track – which is about as hypnotic as a song can get it. Wonderfully lushly produced and masterfully written (principally by Drew Arnott and Darryl Kromm), this is a wonderful collection of great new wave music, notched up by those two irresistible singles and songs like the Simple Minds-inspired "Love Games." A promising debut for a band that would be far too short-lived.

Awakenings 2007 Vol. 1: New Worlds (2007). Brendan Pollard donates his awesome twenty-minute 'E-Live 2006 Rehearsal' to get this double CD set underway. The initial sounds are as if vast objects are being hurled into the sea accompanied by all sorts of weird whooshes and twitters. A superb combination of sequences emerge from the aquatic depths. These meld rapid melodic runs as well as bass pulses. It is all underpinned by some wonderful mellotron. In other words Berlin School Heaven. More sequences are added accompanied by a flutey lead line. In the seventh minute things subside to more thick analogue sonic effects, coming out of it with a decidedly 'Ricochet' sounding collage of sounds. Very impressive indeed…