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Tom and Benet's immense range of influences and experience skillfully evolves into this dazzling album. Wonderful listening that ploughs a new furrow for rural music. Top ranking MOFO (Music Of Farm Origin). The Collectors are based in rural Shropshire, a scenic UK county dotted with medieval towns, early industrial legacy, and oddly the birthplace of both the modern Olympics and the theory of evolution. The music is been described by some as "organic-electronic" but, despite a healthy addiction to stringed instruments and analogue synths, Tom and Benet aren't interested in limiting their sound: "Think of old cogs, sample jars, bee beards and weird Edwardian confectionary, the smell of 60s paperback crime novels, 100ft trebuchets throwing dead pianos across a field or Lawrence of Arabia on a surf board and we're still no closer to describing these mavericks." says a local farmer? Galapagos ? Hotly tipped by The Big Chill's Pete Lawrence, and a whole host of horticulturists, pigs and poultry.