THIS IS NOT A LAMENT

Scotland's bonniest indie/noise experimentalist pays homage to the divine discordance of Pibroch - the art music of Scottish Highlands bagpipers - along with a bunch of esteemed pals; Alasdair Roberts, Oren Ambarchi, Simon Wickham-Smith, Neil Campbell, Norifumi Shimogawa. Ideally you should cop this and head as far north as your clogs will take you before listening for full immersion. "A welcome return from Richard Youngs to Fourth Dimension Records, a label that has supported his work since the early 1990s via collaborations with Simon Wickham-Smith. The latter returns to this set, a double album based around the notion of songs featuring special guests and, paying cryptic homage to the title of a certain PIL album, entitled This is not a Lament. Spread over the two discs, eleven here assume all manner of sonic guises that are often difficult or sometimes blissed-out but always rewarding" (www.boomkat.com)