I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan - I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 25 Mar, 2010.

What to say about this collection of DIY techno-flecked ephemera? It's by a man called Rick Senley who's lived quite the life as a court reporter, journalist & writer. There's some nice soundtracky moments amongst the blunt old-skool juddering & ambient tribal gurgling. It works like an audio travelogue or some form of soundtrack and that's probably cos it is: for a film that stars Jordan's cage fighting lover/husband/ex Alex Reid. So one minute you imagine golden beaches, the next a leaky warehouse rave in 1994 imagined by Guy Ritchie. Curious.

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BREAK BEATS, HARPS, LOVE, VIOLENCE – COMING SOON ON KILLER BITCH

I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan is just one person and lots of sounds - nasty, dark loops, the haunting echo of late night tubes, lonely hearts looking for love at dawn, vicious swirling guitars, screams and strings, decoders, vocoders and a grand piano too.

This is a Chemical Brothers nightmare put to sleep by Robert Smith’s downers, a bed-bath by Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails glaring through the keyhole, The Prodigy banging on the door.

Home-cooked noise with a Dictaphone and laptop in London, Rick has previously been sacked as an English teacher, tried to escape from prison, has written a novel about Victorian prostitution and was shortlisted for 2008’s Travel Photographer of the Year.

Tracks from the album feature on the soundtrack to the upcoming Brit gangster film Killer Bitch with Celebrity Big Brother pillock Alex Reid.

‘If the artist behind this album actually had a St Tropez tan, he would be the perfect man. His skin would be the golden colour of a Greek God – an outward expression of his inner abilities as a gold medal musician in the Originality Olympics’ 8/10, Londoners-com.

‘Lures you into a squat party of distorted electronic melodies.’ Kent on Sunday.

‘Disorientating enough to make my daughter sick’ Russell’s Music Reviews

‘intelligently introspective feel-bad music, with a touch of electro-blue-eyed soul’
4/5 stars - Remote Goat

‘a dangerous musical noise-scape which never lets the listener relax, constantly keeping us guessing when the aura of calm will fade to reveal the dark beast underneath....music this unique deserves an audience’
7/10 Tasty Magazine

'Sordid gnarly blasts of techno like Prodigy in a bad mood segue into slower sections that flit between driftingly pretty and woozily disorientating...melody fights with distortion...evoking unusual states of mind'
Bearded Magazine