Clickits - Express Gifts album flac

'Express Gifts' is the debut album from Clickits, amblicated and friably impressive, distilling the essence of melancholic reflection down into a suprising, uplifting album. Opening with what at first appears to be the most ethereal of rhythms, 'Aramaic' slowly reveals it's internal glory as sodden beats cast a glistening web around snatched guitar melodies and faraway strings: a composition so beautiful it'll make your teeth ache. Continuing somewhat dewy-eyed , 'Wheneveryouready' assumes a refreshing minimally-frayed stance, through a graffiti-influenced rhythm and choral vocals, whilst 'Lilophone' begins with what sounds like unrelated background noise, rhythm tracks made from wooden things and tumbling keys, which subsequently coalesce into utterly beguiling, ramshackle but resolute tunes. 'in my field of view' inches past like a deep dale meeting with early kraftwerk - sublime stuff, and coming to the centre of the album 'lament for the north' troubles ghosts of early Art of Noise, 'Brttle' Sakamoto style innocence to travel through the Clickits sandy hi-fi speakers and animate their 21st century attention spans. Clickits borrow the Murcof schematic - the closer 'Was Until Today' slowly allows disparate elements - disassociated voices, xylophones, benign twinkles and reduced deepfolk bodypops to accrue into a wonderful, cohesive summation to a genuinely remarkable record.