Baikonour - Your Ear Knows Future

1. Intro
2. Shikharettes & Кhukuris
3. Chiru
4. Fly Tiger
5. Double Happiness Wholesale
6. Ye Ama Piooo!
7. Tombahead
8. Summer Grass / Winter Worm
9. Look...Wa!

The second long-player from Brighton's Jean-Emmanuel Krieger, Your Ear Knows Future marks a sharpening of his skills at whittling prog and krautrock influenced instrumentals. For this album, Krieger handles all instrumentation bar the drums, which are deftly helmed by Fujiya & Miyagi's Lee Adams - undoubtedly a sympathetic ear to the Baikonour cause. So many artists have a stab at appropriating the unique sound palettes of bands like My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins, but there are points on this album that come closer than most: 'Chiru' seems to meld the sonic hallmarks of these two touchstones of '90s indie sound sculpting, revealing a blissfully textural onslaught of effects-drenched guitars. Elsewhere 'Tombahead' has a close run-in with the sound of early Air, while the chorused twang of 'Double Happiness Wholesale' drifts off into the horizon via a swathe of glistening arpeggio passages. Lovely...www.boomkat.com