You really can't second guess the next step fromVarious - from sugary pop edits to smacking grimebeats their oeuvre is always brilliantly unpredictable.Their latest full length album aligns itself with maudlinScottish poet Gerry Mitchell after delivering a tasterof the project on with a remix of Mitchell and LittleSparta's 'Feasting On My Heart' 7 towards the endof 2007.The collaboration allows Various to really stretch theirsonic imaginations into windswept cinematic scoresand surreal folk arrangements to bolster Mitchell'sreassuringly dour ramblings. The crew obviouslyappreciate the unique and often impenetrable tone ofthe Scottish accent as much as we do, lending someof their finest studio ideas to compliment the moroseand sinister vocal delivery. Including 17 tracks ofconcise and perfectly measured darkness mergingfield recordings with Krauty synths, fingered banjos,accordians and doomy bass with the vitriolic bile ofGerry Mitchell, you're assured an intensely uniqueexperience.This is a riveting listen and comes with the highestrecommendations to lovers of the bleak side.https:\u002F\u002Fwww.firerecords.com