The Focus Group - Hey Let Loose Your Love

Hey Let Loose Your Love

The Focus Group

Available Formats Tracks Price Buy
CD Album 19 tracks £9.95 Out of stock
Download Album (MP3) 19 tracks £7.99
Download Album (FLAC) 19 tracks £7.99

Description

The Focus Group - Hey Let Loose Your Love

Pieced together with musty samples from children’s exercise records, vintage drama, clunky British jazz and library records, this is an archaeology of emotion, an exploration of the power of not only childhood memories, but of the collective unconscious.

Julian House’s own The Focus Group; oddly assembled sampledelic collages, stitched together from fragments of library cues and forgotten soundtracks. A beautiful, unhinged stream of consciousness that seems to prod at buried memories.

Reviews

Julian Houses's Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the '70s: its a condensed memory of that decade's daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny.

Rob Young, UNCUT
June '05

Tracklisting

CD Album (GBX005)
  1. The Focus Group - Icicle wheel
  2. The Focus Group - You do not see me
  3. The Focus Group - Clockbell
  4. The Focus Group - Echo release
  5. The Focus Group - Xylophone signal
  6. The Focus Group - Modern Harp
  7. The Focus Group - Inside the rubber box
  8. The Focus Group - Lifting away
  9. The Focus Group - Today’s rhythm people
  10. The Focus Group - Hey let loose your love
  11. The Focus Group - String Sine romance
  12. The Focus Group - The Moon Ladder
  13. The Focus Group - Planning for urban green
  14. The Focus Group - Swinging phantom
  15. The Focus Group - The Thre
  16. The Focus Group - Jam-jar carnival
  17. The Focus Group - Baroque face
  18. The Focus Group - The Leaving
  19. The Focus Group - Reflected message
Download Album (GBX005)
  1. The Focus Group - Icicle wheel
  2. The Focus Group - You do not see me
  3. The Focus Group - Clockbell
  4. The Focus Group - Echo release
  5. The Focus Group - Xylophone signal
  6. The Focus Group - Modern Harp
  7. The Focus Group - Inside the rubber box
  8. The Focus Group - Lifting away
  9. The Focus Group - Today’s rhythm people
  10. The Focus Group - Hey let loose your love
  11. The Focus Group - String Sine romance
  12. The Focus Group - The Moon Ladder
  13. The Focus Group - Planning for urban green
  14. The Focus Group - Swinging phantom
  15. The Focus Group - The Thre
  16. The Focus Group - Jam-jar carnival
  17. The Focus Group - Baroque face
  18. The Focus Group - The Leaving
  19. The Focus Group - Reflected message