The Longcut – 'Idiot Check / You Got The Love' (Melodic) Released 05/03/07

Top tune from the Manchester experimentalists, The Longcut, and characteristic of their canon. Stuart Ogilvie’s distorted, vacuous vocal adds to the transcendental air that’s exhaled by gentle hi-hat action and foreboding bass. That air Ian Curtis et al breathed. At 0.47, a melodious five note guitar line tiptoes in alongside the rhythm section. Midway post-rock styled crescendos wrap around the ears, recounting briefly for that sweet guitar line once more.

The twin-tracker includes a cover of The Source’s hit ‘You Got The Love’, making it a worthwhile couple of quid indeed.