Laika - lush, dreamy female vocals on top of complex, jazzy trip hoppybeats and blips. Band is still around - according to their website - next album is half in the bag.
Highly recommended.
Band is Guy Fixsen (former engineer for My Bloody Valentine) and vocalist Margaret Fiedler (former Moonshake member)
Albums so far are
1. Silver Apples of the Moon (1994)
2. Sounds of the Satellites (1997)
3. Good Looking Blues (2000)
4. Wherever I Am, I Am What Is Missing (2003)
4. Lost in Space - Vol 1 (2003) - career retrospective.
some samples from youtube
1. Almost Sleeping from Sounds of the Satellites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_dKHQpSkNk
2. Uneasy - from Good Looking Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubHRfVyNbAw
3. Alphabet Soup - from Wherever I Am, I Am What is Missing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_FU...eature=related
4. Good Looking Blues - from same album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX8u8...eature=related
5. Breather - from Sounds of the Satellites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTGl4...eature=related
6. Moccasin - from Good Looking Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knBNa...eature=related
7. Out of Sigh and Snowblind - from Sounds of the Satellites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSGXr...eature=related
wow - I've just rediscovered this band after doing this post - ....running to store to get retrospective.....
enjoy!!