Gist, The - Embrace The Herd

This is not exactly a consistent album and rather than being offensively eclectic it's Stuart Moxham dabbling around with references towards easy listening, carribean and whatever styles without making any peculiar goal from it. Of course it's the all over DiY-pop-approach, drum machine, solid bass - already so overtly there with the Young Marbel Giants before - which makes the music so fragile, elegant, appealing and, um, post-modern. Unfortunately the one real stand-out track (besides "Public Girl" with Wendy Smith's vocals) is "Simian" and, pity that, it's written by some Debbie Pritchard and some Lewis Mottram. And what a timeless little gem this is... Mottram/Pritchard are said to be involved with another Welsh outfit named Current Obsessions. Anyone ever heard of that? Could be worth checking out.