(Moshi Moshi) Teleman’s brilliant second album is proof of the desirability of letting musicians develop. Three members of the quartet were previously in the unrelentingly OK indiepop group Pete and the Pirates, all jangling guitars and cloying sweetness over their two albums. As Teleman, they dropped the jangle and brought a pleasingly Anglicised version of motorik to the fore. Brilliant Sanity opens with their most explicit statement of the debt to Germany, in the form of Düsseldorf, which ...
Guardian Music — (Moshi Moshi) Teleman’s brilliant second album is proof of the desirability of letting musicians develop. Three members of the quartet were previously in the unrelentin... more info