Ideal Home

The collaboration between Blancmange's Neil Arthur and solo electronic artist Bernholz dates back a couple of years. Files were swapped, sounds and lyrics re-wired, and Ideal Home is the gloriously minimal result. The album is icy and detached; beautiful and otherworldly; Bernholz's spoken word monologue on `Dawn' sounding like a warning signal from the subconscious, while digitised electronics usher in some of Neil Arthur's most intimate vocals.[cargo]