The Shortwave Set
Wall of Sound
London’s soft-psych popsters The Shortwave Set had almost finished recording this album, then Danger Mouse called and asked them out to Los Angeles to do the whole thing again. John Cale and Van Dyke Parks got involved too, with extraordinary results. There isn’t a wasted second on this album, let alone a duff song, and it’s tinged with Californian soul throughout. They may be a deeply backward-looking band but this is a modern classic.
