Welsh acid youth peak with boundary threatning electronica. Over the course of three albums , Carmarthen's Zabrinksi have progressed from guitar caners with a Board Of Canada album to full on electronic-psych forces . Koala Ko-Ordination the finest and strangest thing they've done to date finds the trio scaling new creative heights . 'Blen' and 'Plus 3' skitter dremaily through the territory of the Black Dog or Aphex's 'Ambient Works' while on 'Pan Central' some rusty chords wobble through a dense fog of echoey dub , like Primal Scream if they'd lived in a mid Wales caravan for a year . Even if they did go supernova , Zabrinski would probably remain happy getting slowly baked in a studio . But that's not to say they don't deserve a nation's love , unlikely a prospect as it is

Out of the news since donating Welsh mavericks Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals to the cause Ankst have done it again . While the Carmarthen quartet's first two albums escaped notice - Koala Ko-Ordination's broody bewitching electronica surely won't . The title track could be Gorky's ...with twitchy beats but the overriding mood - urgent , fresh , trippy - is early Stone Roses , However Zabrinksi can latch onto trip hop swarthiness and wide eyed pop , while the album peak 'Black Forest Science Friction's' vocoder led mantra proves it's not just The Coral taking psychedelia forwards

Cardiff teenagers second album Zabrinski sound old beyond their years. Blending Warp style click beat electronica with cosmic psychedelia , they've absorbed some hugely potent music , more importantly they've reshaped it their way . Veering between icy atmospherics ('Blen') , future folk introspection('Switzerland') and ripe pop perfection ( 'Raid the Farm' ) Zabrinski wrestle ambition with ability and make bold eclecticism sound easy . Brain scrambling yet assuredly elegant , these precocious teenagers look set to usurp Super Furry Animals as Wales's leading wide eyed adventurists

There's something endearingly shambolic about Zabrinski .The Welsh seven-piece began their career by misspelling 'Zabrinski' ( as in cult 70's film Zabriskie Point ) and they've stumbled on in a gloriously non linear way from there . The most obvious influence is Gorky's Zygotic Mynci:there's a shared love of melody and idiosyncratic lyrics , but they also favour Pink Floyd , Super Furry Animals and The Orb . Instrumental opener 'Blen' takes its cue from the latter two , pulsing so sublimely through mournful electronica that it's almost a shame when the vocals kick in on the title track . After all , the lyrics don't exactly make much snese and occasionaly their whimsical nature makes them unfocussed .The'point' may be missing but you'll enjoy Zabrinski's attempts to find it .

Zabrinksi release the eclectically fabulous Koala Ko-Ordination on ankst musik . It's nu-psychedelia for pop kids and having supported Coldplay they've learned a thing or two about melody .Cracking stuff from West Wales all trippy pop and banal electronics

With their pop heritage including SFA and GZM, Zabrinksi have a lot to live up to if they want to take on the mantle of the next great Welsh pop act. Happily 'Koala' goes some way to prove their qualifications ; it's gentle demeanour not unlike Gorky's enchanting pastoralism, its psychedelic reflexes evidence of a similar experimental curiousity to the Super Furries. What Zabrinski really love doing, though, is messing about with machines, the throbing buzz drone hovering beneath every song occasionaly bursting into the cosmic white noise that really gives this album weight. The songwriting could do with a bit more work, but this is always interesting stuff

These Cardiff teenagers are plotting a weird path between fellow countrymen SFA and GZM on their second album. From the bubbling inventiveness of the title track to the lo-fi weirdness of Switzerland and the bats in the bellfry strangeness of Spleneticals, there's madcap ideas plenty. Hopefully they'll add a sharper sense of focus and direction as they mature.

Slipping through moods, modes and genres Zabrinski are difficult to pigeonhole - though perhaps that is in fact their intention. This confusion shouldn't imply that Koala is a dud. But it does mean the release is a little hard to switch onto. However after a few listens things start to fall into place, and its appeal stands out bold, while you're left wondering 'Why didn't I get this before ?". Possibly because on first listen your audible senses get lost in the swarm of sounds, or maybe because its mix of songs that merge somewhere between fok, indie and 60's psychedelia. 'Blen' is ethereal and elegant and electric. Switzerland is guitar-based and peaceful, while 'Raid the Farm' is a robotic swiriling tune. All diverse, yet together they're slow burning and addictive, and definitely worth a listen or two.

Under the youthful guidance of whimsical cosmonauts The Coral, the North West has gallantly shouldered its way to the front of the queue for cosmic drug-addled psychedelics. Knocking away the odd branch of garage rock here and the dying tuft of electroclash there, flattening a path for fellow mavericks The Zutons and The Bandits to follow, The Coral have wrestled the mantle for blurred, heavy psychedelia away from its rightful owners across the Severn Bridge. Not any more though, because the Welsh are back. Whether it really is something in the water, or the fact that, like in Liverpool, musical trends rarely snare the public's consciousness like they do in the capital, there's no doubting the heaving production line for neo-psychedelic rock that's hidden in Welsh valleys. Zabrinski are brazen in their debt to fellow countrymen the Super Furry Animals and, more openly, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci with this, the follow up to last years criminally undervalued debut ‘Yeti'. Shuffling a well-worn hand to reveal something new, yet strangely comfortable, ‘Koala Ko-Ordination' finds the teenage trio blurring tight melodies with all manner of kitchen sink effrontery. On ‘Blen', slow-burning electronica recalls a forlorn Euros Childs, contrasting almost perfectly with the spoon-bending eccentricity of the album's title track and the pure pop genius of ‘Raid The Farm' as Zabrinski continually fold and flip their much-loved musical foundations. They're adept enough to prise the glowing torch away from the North West and it's plain Zabrinski aren't here to merely make up the numbers; they want the prize all to themselves, and why the hell shouldn't they ?

my favourite officialy released album of the year, Zabrinski's kaleidoscopic Koala Ko-Ordination, even Jamie Oliver would be hard pressed to cook up a more enticing stew from such a disparate ingredients: drum n'bass, trance and Bulgarian folk music.

if you're as big a sucker for 'interesting' noises decorating smart pop you'll love this, amost as much as I do. From the fresh sounding little shuffle of 'Blen' with it's cooly sampled Space Invaders sounds to the bright, sunny, slow stamp of ' Release The Hounds ' that is surely the only adequate European response to the likes of Yami Bolo, liquid sunshine flowing from your speakers, bask, kiddies, bask. In between you get stuff like 'Switzerland' no chocholate, but it does charmingly manage to combine pastoral acoustic guitar and shuffling beats with the straighforward theft of the burbling computer effect from T-Rex's 76 smasheroo 'New York City ' - coool . Liking that, I did the arse over elbow thing for 'Black Forest Science Friction' that appears to have Stephen Hawkins on lead vox and a guiatr being tunefully sawn in half, a nagging and insistent thing that demands only your attention, again, cooool. Still best moments come with 'Floodback' which seems to have mastered the art of feedbacking from those egg slicer guitars so loved by Elastica and made a happy marriage with them and some snappy drum sounds, is this a great record ? Of course it is you cloth eared skoth, oh and Merry Xmas

The grand tradition of Welsh psychedelic pop is a grand one; quite possible it's the sheer amount of rain which is responsible for all the kookiness spilling around. Zabrinski follow the path of Beach boys harmonies and Flaming Lips sound scapes with admirable panache , giving it all a trip hop twist along the way. 'Black Forest Science Friction', which sounds exactly like its quirkily evocative title, and epic closer 'Release the Hounds' are more Massive Attack than Mercury Rev. Meanwhile 'Switzerland' rewrites the lounge bar classic for damp, forested Wales as far as cheesy listening goes, its definitely mature Roquefort. A tendency to lose focus aside, its an impressive second outing .

Returning to the studio after 'Yeti', Zabrinski had the intention of recording an e.p. but left with a brand new album, and its an absolute cracker. Here Zabrinski make their heavy ambient electronic sound their own. Opener 'Blen' is every chillout DJ's ultimate fantasy while the title track owns the clunky spin-top melody Babybird nearly achieved with his Bugged album. Switzerland has an exquisite balanced orchestral sound that - rich and layered as it is - never overcrowded or claustrophobic. Elsewhere 'Floodback' contrasts wispy echoes with dirgy sound effects . Koala Ko-Ordination songs elaborate brilliantly on the melody-rich pop song at their heart. It's perfect every time