Based on a monthly musical side project on the part of 808 State/Biting Tongues man Graham Massey, Toolshed is further evidence of the Bjork collaborator hankering after his avant garde roots, enjoying a sort of midlife anti-crisis. He’s assisted here by, among others, Paddy Steer, Richard Harrison and the vocals of Seaming To.

This mini-album features five-tracks, opening with a cover of Ennio Morricone’s ‘Pazuzu’ (from the soundtrack to Exorcist 2), which runs an exuberant gamut taking in Batman and the B-52s. Next up is a genuine curio, a cover of Sun Ra’s ‘Satellites Are Spinning’ (from the essential The Solar Myth Approach Part 1), which Massey and co spin out well beyond the original’s spooky, sketchy three minutes 30 seconds, embellishing its exotic cosmic finery with a weave of vibraphone and Roland organs, all courtesy of Massey himself. It’s audacious and not exactly common practice to cover Sun Ra, but this works – as does a version of John McLaughlin’s ‘Marbles’, its meaty, driving riff offset by a fast-moving, kaleidoscopic skyscape.

The last two tracks, both Massey compositions, are reassuringly surreal. “Nananananaanaa’ in particular, with its bizarre, muffled chant is an acid-induced misadventure, while ‘Gobots’ is faintly evocative of the soundworld of Yma Sumac, of lost civilisations and human sacrifices to appease she-goddesses. Among the instruments featured here are one of Massey’s old favourites, the Iguarglaphon. Elsewhere, he deploys the Astroban and the Moog. It’s as if he’s retreating from the Techno-stasis of 808 State into the lost and discarded futures of modern music.