Golden Teacher Schallplatten & CDs

Review: When they first hit the big time a couple of years back, Golden Teacher reacted grumpily to questions about when they might release a debut album, even suggesting they may not bother. We're happy that they changed their minds, because No Luscious Life is really rather good. It's typical of the Glaswegian sextet's impossible-to-pigeonhole sound, offering a range of distinctively spacey, dubbed-out and percussion rich tracks that variously touch on post-punk disco, skewed electrofunk, freshly baked dub, African drum tracks, spaced-out boogie, experimental electro-jazz and much more besides. It arguably boasts a few more "pop" moments than we've come to expect, though these still come doused in epic amounts of tape echo and dub delay.