13 Bands You Didn't Realise Were One Album Wonders
12. Late Of The Pier
You could easily see Fantasy Black Channel as being the perfect soundtrack to a modern indie platformer. One with a retro 8-bit feel and a small, nondescript protagonist with a big head. The sort of crazily difficult game that would be played for a Rage Quit. Midland based outfit Late of the Pier made high calibre, cracked mirror indie music for the house party from your high school years; all rough jerks, sharp edges and intoxicated fumbling. It's an album that was made for strobe lighting. Its busy, screechy and brimming with jumbled loops and strands that get stuck round your head like spider webs. Its the music from that Japanese cartoon in The Simpsons that makes your eyes go all funny and gives you seizures. Throw a toaster in the bath and set it to music. Fantasy Black Channel is a lucid dream of an album that makes your insides go gooey and gives you a splitting hangover when you wake up the next morning.
