LP Advisory Circle From Out Here

The Advisory Circle return with a new album and a much darker sound with 'From Out Here', the enchanted follow-up to the pastoral ambience of 'As The Crow Flies'. Masquerading under this guise, Kate Brooks reveals what is quite possibly her strongest work to date; an 18 track suite drifting from brassy cosmic warning signals to ancient-futurist miniatures reminding of the fragile motifs in Actress' 'R.I.P.' album. The common theme is undoubtedly Brooks' exquisite sound design, uniting a series of individual themes that add up to what Ghost Box describe as "a Wyndham-esque science fiction story, where bucolic English scenery is being manipulated and maybe even artificially generated by bizarre multi-dimensional computer technology". It's all super hi-Q nostalgia for a pioneering age, capturing the spirit of intrigue and curiosity in a range of shape-shifting forms, from radiophonic vignettes sounding like Conet Project transmissions thru the joyfully self-explanatory 'Experiment!', the stoic development of 'Discipline Before Data' or the eldritch synaesthetics of 'Sine Seeing'. It's a deeply rewarding listen, begging to be curled up with on short winter days on long nights.

The Advisory Circle is the work of Kate Brooks, melodic and often melancholic electronic music inspired in part by library music of the 70s and 80s.

Brooks is a stalwart of the Ghost Box label and an extraordinarily prolific artist. She has released several albums and collaborative singles as The Advisory Circle. She also records as The Pattern Forms with Ed Macfarlane and Edd Gibson of Friendly Fires. She has worked with vocalist Tim Felton as Hintermass, and along with Ghost Box founder Jim Jupp she was half of The Belbury Circle. Before joining the Ghost Box family in the early 00s Brooks recorded for Lo Records as King of Woolworths.