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GLOK
Pattern Recognition BYTES
7/10
Renowned guitarist takes up danceshoe-gazing
GLOK’s earliest releases hid their creator’s identity because cynics unwilling to tolerate Ride’s and Oasis’s Andy Bell dallying with electronica might have dismissed them as dilettante. His debut album’s unapologetic, though, with opener “Dirty Hugs”’ 20 minutes of Underworld rumbles adding a Spacemen 3-like guitar riff halfway to emerge as a krautrock juggernaut. Further lengthy journeys to Underworld territory are undertaken on “That Time of Night” and “Maintaining The Machine”, though both lack the Romford gents’ sophistication, while “Closer” flirts with acid house and “Day Three” with drone. Those familiar with Creation’s 1991 comp Keeping The Faith will know the drill.