Iain Campbell – ABSOLUTELY the best ABBA since ABBA

With numerous high-profile and high-concept multi-media performances and exhibitions now under his belt, the man formerly trading under the moniker +Do-NEIMAGI-Ne+ has moved his already leftfield sound even further into little-charted experimental territory (hence the ironic title). Interspersed with gathered recordings from everyday life, this album at times sounds like the fragmented, hallucinatory diary of a William S Burroughs-type figure struggling to distinguish features of the everyday through a wild haze of trippy, layered atonalism and atmospheric claustrophobia.

Make no mistake, at least 90% of the music-buying public will find it utterly impenetrable. However what could easily lapse into whimsy is well-restrained and whilst it does occasionally get thoroughly bizarre there's a permeating sense of musical aptitude (perhaps fuelled by the knowledge that Campbell is a founding and abiding member of cult Glaswegian alternative prog band Lapsus Linguae) which should endear it to adherents of other such acts of musical escapology. [Austin Tasseltine]