Just over a year ago in my main IG account, which is largely dedicated to old concert pics, I dug up a shot of the English outfit playing our blogger-assembled SXSW day show in Austin, Texas way back in 2007. At the time they were touring on the back of their 2006 kraut-psych-space-rocking self-titled debut, which they then took a full decade to follow up on. So while they established they were a band who preferred to work on a geological time scale, I didn’t really expect to hear from them again.

But they appear to believe in the once-a-decade release schedule, because they’re set to release record number three – Modern Moonlight – on May 22 via the good people at Sonic Cathedral. And I will get to their new material in good time, but for right now I’m going to go back to that 20-year old debut and the first single, “All Ones And Zeros”, which made such an impression on me and still keeps me interested in the band (the rest of the debut was a little overlong, as I recall, but the high points were really noteworthy).

And to go with the official video, a live session performance at Electric Lady in New York which probably dates from the same tour as that SXSW appearance: