The Beta Band

Earlier this year, the Beta Band introduced itself to America with The 3 E.P.'s, collecting its
techno-hippie mTlange into an album guaranteed to clear the dance floor faster than a DEA
badge. The Beta Band finds this hairy London foursome getting even wackier -- at last, the
trip-hop Jethro Tull has delivered its Thick As a Brick. The Beta males layer warped voices,
pastoral guitars and random sound effects over slow-motion loops to evoke a ch... More >

Still lost in sound, but oriented enough here to make tunes out of it ("The Hard One," "Round the Bend").