Album: The Shortwave Set, Replica Sun Machine (Wall of Sound)

Following his work with The Black Keys and Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse's production of this effort from The Shortwave Set makes him, this month at least, the hardest-working man in showbiz.

And one of its more diversely talented exponents, as he slips smoothly from their respective nu-blues and new-age soul to the Set's psychedelic indie-rock. He's not the only interesting figure involved, the south London trio having also enlisted the services of the omni-talented Van Dyke Parks, whose baroque-pop string arrangements garland tracks such as "Yesterdays To Come", "Replica" and "House of Lies".

The result is warm, fuzzy songs that recall recent psych-pop offerings from the likes of Dean & Britta, Viva Voce and Joy Zipper. "We'll make our music always off-key/ It's twisted and wrong, some kind of joke symphony," the Set sing on "I Know", but they protest too much, as for all their armoury of theremin whines, electric harpsichord, mellotron and juddering vibrato guitar, this second album is a tasteful, mellifluous affair.

Pick of the album:"Yesterdays To Come", "I Know", "Sun Machine", "No Social"

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