3 The Soundcarriers Entropicalia GHOST BOX 2014, £75

Sweeping popsike from Notts four-piece. Elijah Wood and Jesse Chandler guest.

Nottingham four-piece The Soundcarriers, formed in 2007, comprise Adam Cann, Paul Isherwood, Dorian Conway and Leonore Wheatley. In 2009 and 2010 they released two albums on Melodic before recording this sole outing for Ghost Box. Taped in an empty warehouse, with electricity via cables from outside and hot water bottles stuffed up jumpers to keep warm, they channel psych energy and a love of kosmische, to create a widescreen sound shot through with space-age exotica and radiating heat. Highpoints include Lose The Feel, diaphanous folk with Jesse Chandler of Midlake on flute, and This Is Normal, a 12-minute freakout narrated by actor Elijah Wood with Chandler adding Philicorda, B3 Hammond and flute.