Réamann O Gormain returns with a new set titled The Magnificent 8. The tracks are divided between the dance floor and the chilled / ambient. The uptempo numbers comprise complex collages constructed from samples, snippets of live instruments. Chiefly chopped up guitars, bass and drums. The raucous and rude The Place Where They Want To Stop Time, for example, shreds rock riffs and sirens over a bionic bongo-ed rave beat. Saoirse – Monica And Jamie – Lee On The Razz is racing synth-pop ripped from the same sampledelic sonic cloth as Hugo Nicolson & David Harrow’s recent Revolvalution. Skin In The Game is a chunky, chugging robotic raga synthesised from sitars, backwards guitars and electronic arpeggios.

It’s the mellower moments, however, that I think are the most interesting. Eternally throws a complete curveball. A lovely easy-listening strum, it summons the sort of `60s French chanson / library music cue that inspired Stereolab and that folks like Maston pay homage to. I Don’t Know If We Can Get Back To Where We Were switches between chamber orchestra strings and short cascades of Casio keyboard-like percussive patterns to create a really cool cut of gently phased Woo-esque kosmische. On An Island, A House Of Glass… raises a rush of pedal-steel powered electric counterpoint ripples. We Are The Lamp Lighters And Truth Seekers is a beautiful beatless bit of symphonic ambient techno / IDM that wouldn’t be out of place amongst the `90s chillout room gear collected on Music From Memory’s Virtual Dreams.

Réamann O Gormain’s The Magnificent 8 can be ordered directly from Bandcamp.