TRACK REVIEW: Autoleisureland – The Blue Star

Autoleisureland constitutes a reunion of sorts for David Brewis and Paul Woods, founding members of The Kane Gang, those sculptors of Closest Thing To Heaven, infamous for their name-check on The Fall’s Gut Of The Quantifier and, along with Prefab Sprout, a bona fide addition to the soulful sophisti-pop pantheon of revered acts such as The Blue Nile.

The project is a culmination of four years of writing and amassing tracks together, with debut release The Blue Star being a brilliant continuation of the patented Kane Gang sound, whilst deploying a funkier, more 70s bent, immediately recalling the left-field grooves of Shuggie Otis’ legendary opus Inspiration/Information, with its rolling clavinets and atmospheric production, and is utterly phenomenal.