STARTLED INSECTS - The Antenna Years LP Punk The electronic timbres tend toward

The electronic timbres tend toward the warm and tactile - rounded oscillators

from vibraphone and vintage bass drums to metal objects

The guitar saws

Rowland’s bassist brother Harry and one time Swell Maps drummer Epic Soundtracks

even as recording progressed

STARTLED INSECTS - The Antenna Years LP Punk The electronic timbres tend towardAstonishingly futuristic when it landed in 1984, Startled Insects sounded like it was beamed in from another planet while staying rooted in Bristols underground. Gamelan heat, dub science, post punk edges and cinematic dread collide across these two cult mini albums. Four decades on, it still hits like a transmission from the future. Dive in. FOR FANS OF: experimental electronic, dub, post punk, ambient, early industrial, soundtrack music.