Crispy Ambulance Random Textures / Compulsion CD

2016 two CD set. Random Textures is a new instrumental album by cult Manchester group Crispy Ambulance, now issued as a double CD set with 2015 album Compulsion included as a bonus disc. Random Textures features material written by the band for a series of multi-media events in Manchester during 2015/16 and billed as the Subliminal Impulse Review. The producer is long-term collaborator Graham Massey of 808 State/Biting Tongues. "After a few years of playing our Factory back catalog it felt like time for a change," explains frontman Alan Hempsall. "The best way to force a change in our composing methods and move forward was for me to stop singing. We've always liked doing material that could be used as soundtrack music - albeit for fairly disturbing films. Random Textures is the sound of us spooking ourselves in our cellar studio." Companion disc Compulsion was originally issued in a limited edition of 500 vinyl copies to mark Record Store Day in 2015. In many respects it's the second album Crispy Ambulance might have recorded in 1982 after the release of seminal debut The Plateau Phase, with seven of the ten tracks written and performed live at that time. To these are added µRain Without Clouds?, an outtake newly restored from the original multitrack masters, and remixes of µFour Line Whip? and µWMTP.2? by producer-cum fifth member Graham Massey.

1. Integra 2. Allegro 3. Prostis 4. Four Bank Man 5. Drifter 6. Baku 7. Peripheral Vision 8. Karpadia 9. Bastion 10. Leviathan 11. Red Texas 12. Rainforest Ritual 13. Say Shake 14. Nightfall Ends the Ceasefire 15. At the Sounding of the Klaxon 16. WMTP.2 17. Rain Without Clouds 18. Lucifer Rising 19. Open, Gates of Fire 20. Choral 21. Four Line Whip Remix