Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Echoboy – s/t. Another one of those talked up, next big things that somehow never quite materialised (despite a series of releases on Mute after this self-released debut). Tellingly, I remember really liking this at the time (1999), but couldn’t actually remember what it sounded like. And of course, it turns out to be very of its time, on the one hand being on nodding terms with Neu! (Krautrock starting to hit the indie mainstream around now), while on the other sounding very much like a bedsit Spiritualized. Still very listenable though, and in places really rather great (though as I’ve just discovered, pretty much entirely absent from YouTube.