Testbild Imagine A House CD

Utterly lovely new album from Swedish outfit Testbild!, now a quartet, with Petter and Mattias joined by Douglas Holmquist (Dr Higgins, Rodriguez) and film maker Pontus Lundkvist. Lacking most of the jagged postpunk edges of the second album or their recent 7" split with Anthony Rochester, the new Testbild! Make good with gentle melodies and layers and layers of tasty keyboard, metallophone, lullaby vocals and atmospherics recorded in that house... you know, the one at the end of the street that you were expressly forbidden to play in (but nevertheless did). The band purport to be influenced by acid folk and Canterbury pop songs, but, basically speaking, it's just sweet, moody and really good. Tasty artwork, too, in extended digipak plus lyric book. Also includes a 14 minute film by Pontus.

1. Inside Raindrops 2. Caryatides 3. Bas Jan Ader 4. Inspoor 5. Imagine a House 6. Sodaine 7. Isthmus 8. Shirley Dreams 9. Phanopoeia 10. Suddenly Aching 11. Ipsifendus 12. Inmoor 13. A Lullaby in Vain 14. Ryska Valsen 15. The Attic 16. Where Did This Begin?