VANISHING TWIN - AFTERNOON X

Released: 06/10/23

I generally eschew all types of artificial intelligence, believing, as all right-thinking and reasonable people do, that it will inevitably bring about the destruction of the human race – or at the very least end with us being subjugated by our robot/android/cyborg betters. And they won’t be friendly like C3PO, or Bishop from Aliens, but will be total dicks like Hal 9000, or Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner. But if I did employ such technology, I might be inclined to order it to make a band that sounds like a cross between Broadcast, Stereolab, Brazilian psych-jazz, Les Baxter, and John Barry’s The Persuaders! theme tune. Thankfully, however, I don’t have to abase myself with such silicon-directed entreaties, as London’s excellent Vanishing Twin already sound like all of these things that are dear to my heart – and with the magnificent Afternoon X, they have created their most kinetic and beguilingly strange album yet.