This latest Sonic Oyster release sees duo Ilk (Glasgow residents Andrew Paine and Richard Youngs) set out their widest sphere of activity on one disc to date. The three pieces of “Volume 1” are like a series of jigsaw-built aerial musical photographs; (almost) all of musical life can be heard here. Incensed (in both senses of the word) Youngs guitar noise explodes with the title track overlaps the midnight pastoral of folk whistles, which in turn sees widescreen Cure-ish guitar lines coming to the fore. Paine comes to the fore on “The Planets Are Broken” with 70’s after hours TV coming over in the sailing tones of tomorrow’s people. Across the whole disc there are slivers of brilliantly loose percussion, broken analogue shares the background – Pain and Youngs world a mixture of analogue experience and dials gone mad. 9/10 -- Scott McKeating (1 May, 2009)