Left field electronica with it’s own unique flavour
Autons frontman / mainstay David Auton is obviously a bit of a cinema head, because he’s only gorn an given his new album, the cunningly-entitled “Celluloid” (see what he did there?) a cinematic theme. Albeit one focussed on the ‘40’s and ‘50’s flicks he saw as a kid.
Quite how this interest resulted in his composing and producing a series of bombastic, stripped down electro rock songs to them is a story undoubtedly not worth examining in this review, but we’ll take the intervening events as read, given the paucity of biographical information I could be arsed to glean. Switching from banging electro-pop strangely reminiscent of the Happy Mondays to something resembling lost bits of the Twin Peaks soundtrack and back before the album’s halfway point demonstrates their versatility, however.
It probably won’t make a huge impact on the charts, but Autons will undoubtedly find a loyal following very receptive to them if they continue making music of this standard. Something tells me they’ll be happy with that outcome…
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Eddie Thomas
