Going Postal

Generally very laudable piece here.

Been relistening to Laika a lot recently, perhaps my favourite band of that 'lost generation', particularly for the first two albums. I think 'Silver Apples of the Moon' pips it, it has more sharp edges, more urgency, but 'Sounds of the Satellites' also, with its wonderfully amniotic textures, and it's musically more of a piece. Some later stuff is decent too, though 'Good Looking Blues' comes over, in places, like Suzanne Vega rapping over 'On The Corner.'





To contrast them with Disco Inferno, whose melding of indie/guitar pop and sampling could sometimes feel a little gauche (perhaps occasionally even gratuitous), I felt that with Laika the samples, synths etc were fully folded in, absorbed, so that they seemed to be coming from the inside out rather than layered on the top. That's something DI attained with 'Lost In Fog' (their best moment for me). Mind you, I like DI's gaucheness as well.