Everybody Wants to Be Like Mary

Scottish folk music is no stranger to electronica – going back to the original ‘techno piper’, the late Martyn Bennett – and here ADAM (A Day A Month) revive that course of mixing piping with electronics and a beat solid enough to make furniture with, the kind of furniture you have to drag across the floor. Mairearad Green’s pipes and the production work of Mike Vass combine best on the shimmery third track ‘OGA’, which comes close to the mesmerism of Krautrocker Klaus Dinger’s La! Neu? project. Ditto, on the eight-minute ‘CAD’, the duo recast a Gaelic love song into liminal layers of ambience and presence, the electronics to the fore. The more off-beat they go, the better it sounds – the circling flow of ‘’S_’ is truly beguiling, while the hazy, disembodied spirits concentrated in the glow of the slow burn of ‘LAT’ is an eerie highlight.