Hauntology pioneer returns with funked-up prog odyssey.
Operating at the intersection between hypnagogic electronica, library music and forgotten TV themes, Belbury Poly is the solo project of Ghost Box mastermind Jim Jupp. The Path is, by some margin, their grooviest and most accomplished album to date. Author and poet Justin Hopper returns from 2019’s Chanctonbury Rings project to deliver a spoken-word antinarrative about the mysteries of the English landscape. But it’s bassist Christopher Budd and drummer Max Saidi who make the biggest difference to the sound, creating a supple and dynamic rhythmic foundation for Jupp’s woozy pastoral melodies. The funky jazz noir soundtracks of Roy Budd are a stated influence, but there’s also more than a hint of Gil Scott-Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in the cool flute…
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Prog (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 142