James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal SpiritsLet electronics guru James Holden and his newly expanded band The Animal Spirits transport us to a magical other world with this third album: a bold new set of synth led folk trance standards, fusing elements of psychedelia, krautrock, world and spiritual jazz with Holden's usual propulsive melodic vigour into his most ambitious but also most accessible work to date.The synth and drum core of Holden's Inheritors era live touring outfit has picked up

depending on the choices of the individual

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It is this implausible balancing act

and Brendan Suppression thought they would play a few shows and perhaps record a 7-inch or two

many more all captured here in their formative early years

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but his songs -- a series of horror film-influenced records including "Red Temple Prayer (Two-Headed Dog)

Simple drum kits

Meshell Ndegeocello) to engineer and play bass guitar in sessions with Chicago ex-pat saxophonist

Instead of delivering an entirely bleak album

Fiona Apple) to shape five of the band's favourite tracks on the album

it reveals yet another musical side to a band seemingly in perpetual motion