Bleep

Video cut-up wizard VHS Head gets wild and freaky on Trademark Ribbons of Gold, his first long-player on the resurgent Skam label. Burrowing his own path of bombastic electro sheen through reams upon reams of hidden video tapes from across the decades, the producer, based in Blackpool, UK, creates nightmarish visions by assembling unforeseen sound clashes that positively explode outward from your speakers. Opening with the widescreen introduction of ‘Ident’, the album's first half hurtles along at breakneck pace. Vicious stomp and thrilling samples abound, only pausing for break with the 80s swagger of ‘Skyline’. ‘Seen Enough’ glistens with Amazonian flutes and rom-com melodies, a thrillingly unexpected collage.