No Ceremony///

Nice dance tracks, catchy and chilled tunes relaxing it has it all, very cool sounds great with bass love it

Biographical details of this talented trio have not been easy to unearth.(Manchester and the names Kelly, James and Victoria have been mooted).It would appear that they wish this to be so thereby cultivating a littlemystery and anticipation. Is this willful obfuscation a worthwhile ploy?On a first test drive NO CEREMONY /// would appear to have delivereda worthy debut album. Their muse is substantially nocturnal and filledwith spectral harmonies, leaden beats, dense chordal synth structuresand fractured and heavily treated vocal parts. They rarely crack a smile.If you're one for a bit of the glooms then inventions such as the brittleopening track 'HURTLOVE' and the positively sepulchral 'DELIVERUS' willprobably be right up your dark alley but when the trio get a bit of a steamup, as with the brash and blundering deconstructed-glam of 'HEARTBREAKER',the trancy anthemic central section of 'FEELSOLOW' and the almost playfulspace station blips and bloops and solid rhythmic foundations of 'HOLDONME',the possibility that we might just be able to join them in a little light revelryon a moonlit dancefloor proves that they can let their hair down occasionally.A ray of light breaks though momentarily on the lovely song 'AWAYFROMHERE'(a really pretty tune which had me thinking about 70's Barclay James Harvest)but for the greater part this first foray into the listening world impresseswith its single-minded adherence to and respect for the rules of melancholy.Recommended.