5 The Advisory Circle From Out Here GHOST BOX 2014, £14.95

Messing about with homebuilt electronics and analogue synths creates a blueprint for audio theatre.

Jupp calls him, “The master of electronic pieces”, a tag borne out by a quick survey of composer, producer and engineer Jon Brooks’ back catalogue: three albums of conceptual atmospheres recorded as King Of Woolworths, various oneoffs under his own name, and two further LPs as Georges Vert and D.D. Denham for his own Cafe Kaput label. Plus, five LPs as The Advisory Circle for Ghost Box. This was his fourth for the label and followed 2012’s bucolic As The Crow Flies to stake out a John Wyndhamesque fantasy scripted around the idea of a perfect rural idyll, manipulated, even generated, by AI. Despite the dark concept, these analogue instrumentals are filtered with light.