Bleep

Brad Rose (aka The North Sea) is probably the last person you'd expect to see at the helm of a pop album. A folk record - maybe, a noise record – sure, but pop? Probably not. Yet that's exactly what he and his wife Eden Hemming have done with 'Mechanical Gardens'. The ALTAR EAGLE sound might not come as much of a shock for those cassette collectors who have managed to source copies of the duo's now rare debut EPs, but for the rest of the world it should serve as a radical change in direction for one of experimental music's most valuable sons.
The ear-splitting noise that enticed listeners on 'Bloodlines' is all but forgotten as Brad and Eden pick through shimmering dream-pop and cold-wave electronics with the greatest of ease.

NB: The vinyl is strictly limited