Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen

These days there seems to be no end of band monikers guaranteed to make your Mum's eyes roll. What a nice surprise Holy Fuck are then. Having digested this Canadian electro duo through the medium of print only, and with a slightly more 'onerous' listening experience expected, the resultant mini-operatic whirlpool-in-space of Lovely Allen, is indeed quite lovely. It glides in all ethereal and floaty-like, the sort of sounds that dry-ice was invented for, before attaching a sturdy rock-propulsion system and heading heavenwards. Like Sigur Ros soundtracking the video game Geometry Wars with The Who hogging the joypads. [Darren Carle]