CD3 – Rules For Living [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop " It’s been over a

" It’s been over a decade since Roy Montgomery’s last album

the faint murmur of a guitar etching out the suggestion of a melody only to be devoured by un-bottled pressure

September 2004

The Refrain’s two side-long tracks mix sounds of the mundane with the otherworldly

The angle on which Yan Jun approaches the matter of noise is an interesting and poetic one

CD3 – Rules For Living [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop " It’s been over a"Listening to CD3, I'm reminded of how the Vincent Over The Sink record '22 Coloured Bull Terriers' made me feel all those years ago. There's a free ranging quality to it. It feels calmly capable of doing whatever it wants. It feels mysterious and self generating, almost aloof to the humans who made it. I adored that record; it cascaded into so many epiphanies. I don't want to implicate Cooper and David's music in any fleeting desire towards currency,