Tim Burgess & Bob Stanley Present TIM PEAKS – Ace UK 2LP

“This is a soundtrack for a mythical café in a mythical north, so not everything here needs to have been released by Factory, or originated in the north west, it just needs the right feel, the right temperature. It’s quite likely that our parallel-world David Lynch might want to set his show in the equally damp, equally green valleys of South Wales, which is reason enough to include minimal miniatures by Young Marble Giants and the Gist, as well as Gwenno’s ice crystal electronica. Not that the music needs to originate from Britain at all – there are tracks here from Sweden, New Zealand and the US too; it’s a fictional show, and a fictional venue after all. The music here spans more than three decades – does this diner exist in the present day, or the past? Does this even matter? Order another Tim Peaks coffee. There’s no clock on the wall. It’s cold outside. Stay awhile.”