1 The Focus Group The Elektrik Karousel GHOST BOX, 2013

Julian House’s comprehensive mapping of the curious cultural landscape at the heart of Ghost Box.

Where The Focus Group’s previous outings were constructed around psychedelic sound cut-ups to create the aural equivalent of his collaged sleeve designs – captured best on Hey Let Loose

Your Love from 2005 – this excellent fourth album from the alias of Ghost Box co-founder Julian House is more closely aligned to the broader sonic palette of 2009’s Broadcast and The Focus Group’s

Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age. In fact, Broadcast were again credited with assisting House in his scherzo reconfiguring of English psychedelic whimsy through a voluptuary of sonic tributaries stretching into a spacious sonic hinterland: Czech animation, Italian giallo, early BBC Radiophonic Workshop moves and, again, HP Lovecraft. The fun doesn’t stop there: the album’s sleeve, inspired by the underground press of the 1960s, is designed in such a way that it can also be played as a board game.