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Amazon.co.uk Review
A promising debut album from oddball Nottingham sextet Seachange, Lay of the Land merges edgy indie rock with murky John-Cale-like twists of violin and often broaches the white-noise drone of former label stablemates Six by Seven. Add lashings of homespun jangle-folk (as on modern murder-in-the-woods tale "Anglokana"), bewildering Robyn Hitchcockian prose and the red-raw Stooges proto-punk rock of "Forty Nights" and "SF" ("I got a bomb in my heart....yaaaaaaarggh") and it's a queer old brew. However, while the words of tonally-wayward singer Dan are intriguing, they ought to come with a letter of explanation. Too many lines ("Foxes learn when the best time, make escape on a warm summer's night") resemble those gobbledygook coded messages the wartime BBC transmitted to SOE operatives in occupied Europe. --Kevin Maidment