It's nice when your friends instictively know what music you'd like. This is one of those times and I'm feeling happy to listen. I've been dormant for a while, off the radar so to speak; but thankfully my reliable minions have been on the hunt for good new tunes while I'm busy being gay.  

So I'm sat in the kitchen making strawberry pancakes (don't make me wait for it), dough, and Dan's ultimate loaded potato bastards. I have stopped to make a smoke and type this. The dough is rising and in the background is Peter Broderick who's got a grrrreat voice. The instrumentals are pretty damn good too. His songs are reminiscent of an English summer; freshly cut grass, the smack of leather on willow, families throwing frisbee to one another; laughing whimsically while eating pancakes, potatoes and dough on the promenade...

No. Naughty. With all seriousness, this album is seriously good. In fact it's all good, just check out his Soundcloud. I've liked his music since I first heard it on films too numerous to go into here, as well as his live work with the brilliant Efterklang. And to add beauty to injury - he's label mates with Beard Rock favourites Ólafur Arnalds. What's not to like about titles like "Pill Induced Slumber"? Does exactly what it says on the tin, you know what to expect. Rest easy, brothers. It's nice to hear a singer/songwriter who hasn't fallen into the all-so-popular trend of blindly shifting his/her musical tastes to suit the bosses (Someone like Jose Gobzalleeze for example, although just recently I was shocked and ashamed to discover that said friends [looking at you, Honch] mercilessly ridicule your spelling when you're wrong, but hey... every day's a school day) and is keeping his Steve Reich-influenced roots very apparent. Good on him I say.

Bit off topic there, more about the music, less about why my laptop is covered in flour. Further listening is required, but I'm far too wired. I want to fall asleep to this. But before I go, you, dear reader are instructed to make sure you check out "Music for on Paper Wings", and "For Falling From Trees". Most of all, check out the whole of this album, along with everything else Erased Tapes have to offer. (Nils Frahm, Codes etc). You have to be in the mood, and when you are it's amazing. Whatever I write is nothing compared to the experience of listening to it all. And it's perfect for making dough to.