Slaves - Take ControlThe hyper motivated Kent duo of Isaac Holman (vocals, drums) and Laurie Vincent (guitar) have followed a spectacular 2015 by recording another hit album in waiting, at Jackson Browne's studio in Santa Monica, California. 'Take Control', was produced by one of the legends of early hip hop and New York punk, Mike D from the Beastie Boys. 'Take Control' finds the young pair sharpening up their skills, both in songwriting and in execution and sounding

remastered by Rick Smith from the original MIDI files

By parodying easy listening sleeves of the 60s and 70s

'lonerism' encapsulates a wide-screen worldview liberally doused with optimism

They BECAME the ships and they called themselves Electric WÌ_rms

Multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood is the only member of the Mothers to appear on the album and was the primary musical collaborator

Over the years - as members of the criminally underrated 'prog-psychedelic band' Simian

was influenced by their wiring diagrams

An argument could even be made that the Prophets predict the self- referential meta-pop of a group such as LCD Soundsystem

spending time with her tunes and crafting the smallest details

the Slave backed ‰ÛÏSummetime Lovin‰۪‰۝ / ‰۝Special Effects from Mars

"Blue Christmas"åÊ

but just the beginning for the scores of songwriters subsequently inspired by his bleak-but-beautiful visions