Third Wave by The Telescopes. Nine years on from their last record, The Telescopes return amidst the revival of interest in the shoegazing era, but aren't content merely to recycle their early nineties sound. Instead, this spooky record is predominantly instrumental mood music, definitely to file in the 'soundtrack to an imaginary film' category. Stand-out track is Tesla Death Ray which features Stephen Lawrie on 'vocoders, groovebox, moogerfooger bass, tape delays, space invaders, black and decker drills, stylophone [and] toy car.' Which is just as it should be.