The Blossom Filled Streets

You couldn't ask for a more appropriate title for Movietone's third album. The Bristol sextet's gentle breezy nu-jazz is based around the axis of Kate Wright and Rachel Brook, and it is exactly what you would imagine listening to on a brisk mid-winter's day walk when Sunday television has become a far too brain numbing exercise. They were born from the fallout from the mysterious Linda's Strange Vacation, the original Bristol garage band whose eventual implosion also resulted in Dave Pierce forming Flying Saucer Attack and Matt Elliott forging his Third Eye Foundation project.

Saying that their piano and woodwind arangements are extraordinary is still a serious understatement, and for proof of the more extreme side to their airiness, one track entitled 'Seagulls/Bass' is erm, exactly that! That all may sound just slightly pretentious, but just when you think these nu-jazz hipsters are nothing more than pisstakers, vocals to die for come from Kate Wright on the deliciously moody 'Hydra'. What is generally branded as 'mood' music is often a turn off in most people's book, but if the prospect of rough, raw and seductively executed music unstrangled by layers of cheapy trance effects is your idea of heaven, then Movietone would be a good choice to soundtrack your day.