Daniel Bates

The cosmic sound is by nature a bit daft but the more epic it gets, the more it runs the risk of taking itself a bit too seriously and becoming smug.

John Davis' interest in goofing around hasn't quite died out on this long player, but the hours and hours he's spent in his bedroom studio over the last two years have clearly tempered his taste for the peculiar with a degree of seriousness and the kind of anorak passion that can produce the very best electronic music. Which is what this record is.