The House of Cosey Cushions & Katie Kim

Katie Kim and her lovely sand-textured voice make a welcome return on this collaboration with The House Of Cosy Cushions. It’s an album in which sweet trance-like melodies (sung by both Kim and House Of Cosy Cushions singer, Richard Bolhuis) poke their heads out from behind Ennio Morricone guitar twangs and these in turn poke their heads out from a bedrock of tape hiss, found-sounds and droning shoegazing synths and melodicas and strings.
While that all sounds like a pretentious recipe for arty destruction, in this case it isn’t – far from it. On occasion the melody gets lost in the mood, but on balance The House Of Cosy Cushions & Katie Kim is a fina and beguiling record.