BLACK NOISE

FM's black noise presents a talented trio sounding like a massive band thanks to Deller, Hawkins and Nash the Slash's fearsome technical chops and exciting, energetic compositions. Nash the Slash is the standout performer on here, making his sole album appearance with the band before he departed to continue his own eccentric solo career, because between his violin, mandolin and glockenspiel he is able to incorporate a dizzying variety of unexpected sonic textures into the band's work. Far from your typical power trio, FM here have a sound based on a mixture of symphonic prog, jazz fusion, and other genres of 1970s art rock and at points are able to attain a strange futuristic sound reminiscent of the electronic music of the coming decade. A prog classic.