Doot-Doot by Freur

Doot-Doot, the debut album from Welsh new wave and synth-pop band Freur, came out in 1983, and it's a strange, glistening thing. Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, who had first worked together in an art-school outfit called the Screen Gemz, were already chasing sounds that didn't belong to anyone else, years before they formed Underworld.

The title track is the one people know: a slow, hypnotic drift of synths and a hushed, dreamy vocal that feels like a lullaby transmitted from the far side of the moon. It was only a minor hit in Britain but became a genuine hit in New Zealand, and filmmakers have kept coming back to it, in Vanilla Sky and Let Me In among others. The cassette edition threw in four extra tracks.

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