Ghost Box - Reviews

  
                    Stewart
                    Lee, Sunday Times Culture Magazine

                    30th March 2008,

                    Review of
					The 
					Advisory Circle
					- 
					Other Channels
The Advisory Circle’s debut is the most fully realised expression of 
													the Ghost Box label’s 
													aesthetic to date. Its 
													artists inhabit a 
													half-remembered zone sure to 
													resound with impressionable 
													listeners of a certain age. 
													Clean, cold sounds echo the 
													electronic incidental music 
													of 1970s public-information 
													films and weird children’s 
													television. 
Beautifully assembled 
													packaging, by the designer 
													Julian House, suggests some 
													long-abandoned government 
													social experiment. Other 
													Channels uses snatches of 
													speech and fragments of 
													banally beautiful melodies 
													to conjure a vivid suburban 
													nightmare of Mogadon coffee 
													mornings, treacherous frozen 
													ponds and imminent nuclear 
													war that both chills and 
													charms.