Hey Let Loose Your Love

The latest in a complete series of Ghost Box re-issues, Hey Let Loose Your Love was the second album by The Focus Group, first released in 2005 and now re-issued on CD and for the first time on vinyl (10inch). Julian House’s Focus Group should appeal to anyone who grew up in Britain in the ’70s: its a condensed memory of that decade’s daytime and after hours television. These 19 soundbites ape the incidental music for The Tomorrow People, The Clangers and Follyfoot, jazz drums, bass flutes, continuity men and grubby science-lab electronica. Like Boards of Canada minus beats, the feeling of smothered innocence evokes powerful intimations of the uncanny