Each cassette features a single long track per side, the first of which is Pregnant Spore’s ‘Twitching Minions’ an almost amorphous exercise in power electronics. Although starting with sparse metallic clangs whose echoes describe a spiralling, spacey location it is not very long before successive blasts of static intrude over the crusty rumbling and aggressive drilling forming the usual noise engine stubbornly overturning. Amidst the engine’s roar, wildly lurching squeals skid and burst evolving into the turbulence of a wounded spitfire as it eventually lands, allowing its pilot (and audience) to eventually rest. A similar palette is explored on the other side, but used as a call and response between the hi-end skids and the lower crusty hoovering, like a long conversation in an unpleasant alien tongue. At times its formless scribbling and squealing seems not that different to the natural born alarm that faithfully indicates a kettle’s boiled.

So it comes as some surprise to find that the first side of the Dementia and Hope Trails cassette comes on like an extended deconstruction of an eighties pop ballad. Firmly built around a guitar sound not a million miles away from Prince’s Purple Rain, the flange and chorus pedals feed delay units that spread Lloyd’s melancholic tune (yes, tune!) around as it laments the change of the seasons. Finger picked chords are later joined by what could be a piano and ultimately tinny synth strings, all playing the same notes, creating a melancholic yet saccharine soundtrack suitable for a sun-bleached John Hughes movie before drowning in distortion at the very end of its 21 minutes. The second side is, perhaps, the most elusive piece in the entire package which is best summed up by its title: ‘The Dense Atmosphere Inside A Sky Blue Rotating Orb’. A roughly extended peal of a drone suggests the orb’s spinning at a constant speed experiencing the odd bit of inertia, while movements in the background sound like someone’s playing a game of pool as the balls click kinetically, perhaps from attempts to pot a sky blue one?

All in all, the four pieces presented here each represent a strange journey to choose to go on. Their over-long duration makes each an uncomfortable excursion through, in the main, seemingly random output; whereas a short, single piece deftly combining choice accidents from each might present a more engaging proposition.