Telephone Jim Jesus is the kind of record you want use as s soundtrack to a presidential debate: it sets a defeated, hopeless tone of subtle beauty, readying the mind to sift through the worst and hopefully find something of merit.

This record is wonderfully bizarre, though every song is coherent and moving, yet playful. The most bizarre thing about the record is how it shifts from Coil-esque soundscapes to mellow drum 'n' base ala Aphex Twin to mellow, dark sounds layered with propaganda samples and Jello Biafra sound-bytes. Fun, thought provoking, and moody, A Point Too Far Astronaut is simultaneously eery and lush.

Part of the Anticon collective (and made up of the sound engineers behind their white boy hip-hop prodigies The Restiform Bodies), TJJ, like all Anticon acts, is a combination of noises, samples, drum machines, and minimalist vocals which, when combined, create a solid atmosphere of intriguing, creative electronica. A Point Too Far Astronaut is thoroughly palatable from beginning to end, and leagues better than most of the solid, more expensively done electronica out there.

A beautiful bounty of electronica done right.

-Todd Berry