La Tour
Floating in cool I've got my own little rules
self-released
"Floating in cool I've got my own little rules" may have many laud the title as an art project - the band may use visuals onstage, parade early '90s sampedelica as their own - but overall this is as solid as any current mainstream big hitting issue today. Just as Kaiser Chiefs cover KLF, you know something is in the air so if it needed earthing La Tour could offer that metal-to-earth connection. There are smidgens of many fine artists like Future Sound Of London or even The Orb in places, but La Tour really peg things through some deep house roots and the eerie beats on tracks like "Diskotek" and "Hus". The soundscapes on "A space before night" are gurn worthy. You can own the nine track CD disc via the band's website, but would someone please press a batch of 12" vinyl EPs of this stuff and get it out in the clubs. It works on all fronts.
- Jason Christie