Back To Mine: Adam Freeland

Herald rating: * * * *

Album umpteen in the variable Back To Mine series is brought to us by breakbeat pioneer Adam Freeland and it comes in two speeds, alive and dead.

Early doors it's all cool rock poses with Trail of the Dead's Will You Smile Again For Me and Autolux's 90s noisenik borrowing Turnstile Blues, but come Yo La Tengo's nigh-on 10-minute crime against humanity, Sleeping Pill, and you're wishing they had finished off the bottle.

The Pink Floyd-type drum heroics of M83 manage to prick the ears up again before the jolly Boards of Canada finish up with Zoetrope. Z is for zzzzzzz.

Label: DMC