Ocean of Frequency music/is/for/losers****

Busy boy Richie Egan is back in the fray with another doozie of a record that is bound to appear on plenty of Best of 2011 lists come December. Like his most recent, effort, 2008's Choice Music Prize-winning Ritual, Egan has coralled a wide variety of pop/rock/electro styles into less than an hour. Ordinarily, and in less capable hands, the diversity would prove a bridge (and possibly a chorus) too far, but Egan – across the likes of Please Don't Turn the Record Off, Too Many People, One of Those Days That Just Feels So Long, You Make the Love, The Oldest Mindand Borrowed Time with Peace– ensures that, like a skilled puppeteer, each song, and its constituent parts, moves the way it should: fluidly and with some style. See japemusic.com

Download tracks: The Oldest Mind, Borrowed Time with Peace, You Make the Love