The Telescopes
Songs Of Love And Revolution
TAPETE
Kaleidoscopic dream-pop.
DANNY CLINCH/PRESS
Some bands don’t disappear, but instead drift deep and deeper into the
ether, turning up strange new minutiae, odd crawling shapes; far and further they go, fuelled by their own twisted obsessions and a sideboard full of Velvet
Underground rarities and whispered rumours of My Bloody Valentine reunions.
If it doesn’t feel right framing
Stephen Lawrie’s Telescopes and their drifting kaleidoscopic dream-pop in terms of other bands, it’s because they have so clearly distilled and refined their own sound long ago: hidden, spooky, mesmeric, a secret gardening of secret delights. So much so that this, their twelfth album in a 30-year career, can only really be described as ‘The Telescopes’.