I suppose it was only a matter of time till I discovered Gordon Chapman-Fox and the sound of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. It's where Northern brutalism and psychogeography (two passions of mine) plug into the mains and reimagine what Krautrock would sound like if you swapped slick Germanic autobahns for British arterial ring roads and their miles of ubiquitous coned off lanes.
You'll have to forgive me but, like I've just said, I have only just begun wading thru their back catalogue; I really could have gone with anything, by way of introduction, from their half dozen albums (plus a clutch of singles/EPs) but I've gone for a brace that starts with Polytechnic from People & Industry - their album from 2022 featuring a rather familiar looking power station on the album's sleeve, and then Gateway to the North from 2021's Interim Report, March 1979 (the spoken word intro, I think, tees both the track and the album up perfectly).
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