Russell Haswell: Wild Tracks (Editions Mego) - CD originally released June 2009

Taking a break from massacring speakers (try to sit through either of the 'Live Salvage' albums and tell me it didn't hurt), computer / noise musician Ruswell Haswell changes tack and delivers an album of field recordings. Sourced from his local area of Suffolk as well as Jamaica, it's a mixture of what sounded like a perfect English Summer and intrusive army manouveres.

The track titles are great: 'A Horde Of Flies Feast On A Rotting Pheasant Carcass (Extract)' should be doom metal whilst 'Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer' is exactly that. My favourite by far is 'Jamaican Blowhole'. Sonically the most exciting track is 'Helicopter Trip (Edit)'....play loud for instant fun!

Easily the best CD packaging I've seen in a long time as well; encased in a Kidzbox (go and Google it), complete with fold-out A2 poster with colour pictures and recording notes. In some alternate reality, this would have been the standard packaging on all CD's.