The Lothars
Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas (Wobbly Music)

Everybody loves theremins, right? Those odd old contraptions that sing the body electric with a wave of the hand? C'mon, a little "woo-ee-oo" to give that Jon Spencer or Pixies tune some saucer-man je ne sais quoi. Now here's an (almost) all-theremin band to up the ante on the musical motion detector. "Deep" enough to reflect the instrument's roots in early-century electronic experimentalism and pained enough to relect its inventor's tragic fate (that's another story), Oscillate nevertheless comes off like a friendlier version of the terrifying tonescapes on Louis & Bebe Barron's seminal Forbidden Planet soundtrack. If that helps. Woo-ee-oo! 8.5/10 (Rupert Bottenberg)