TELEMAN

Family Of Aliens MOSHI MOSHI 7/10 London four-piece’s synthpop odyssey celebrates escape

Family Of Aliens, Teleman’s third album, is all about escape: into space, under the sea, into oblivion and inside your own head. It’s all done with a wry, matter-of-fact wit rather than self-pitying sadness, and the spirit and sound of Pulp hang over much of the album, particularly tracks like the bouncy “Between The Rain” and the superb pop-punk “Fun Destruction”. The band work within a synthpop setting but successfully branch out to glam on “Twisted heart”, while a highlight is the krautrock-y “Cactus”, which maintains a repetitive riff amid some of the band’s most waspish lyrics.