Magnetophone - I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be

Full title: I Guess Sometimes I Need to Be Reminded of How Much You Love Me. After a number of limited edition cassettes and vinyl releases, Magneto phone made the move to the influential independent label 4AD for this their debut album. Performed in part on homemade keyboards, the album is a genuinely strange product, mixing elements from early electronics pioneers like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, and Jean Michel Jarre (especially his OXYGENE album) with freaked-out, paranoid clattering drums, bursts of heavily distorted guitars, and pretty synth melodies. 4AD.

1) Oh Darlin'
2) Frankholmes' Drive
3) Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
4) Californium
5) Temporary Lid/Georgia
6) How I Learned to Love the Future
7) Machine Surrender/Milk of the Commander
8) Air Methods
9) Why Stop When It Feels So Good?
10) Grateful Aren't We?
11) So Much As Hold My Hand
12) Humdahh
13) Love Needs You