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A real treat for the ear-goggles on the 6th full-length release from the inventors of "pajama pop". Lullatone Presents the Bedtime Beat is a concept album with a twist. None of your Rick Wakeman wankery here, Shawn and Yoshimi have conjoured up a 20-minute homage to sleep and the everyday preparations that precede it. Uninspiring? Hold your tongue! Like the childlike dreams that inform much of this genre, Lullatone's new collection is out of this world.

True to their minimalist principles, the couple have pulled together household sounds that place the listener in a comfort zone recognizable to all. From the off, we're treated to the sounds of Yoshimi preparing for her bathtime, replete with a "drum solo" performed on the surface of her bathwater ("The Bathtime Beat" - see below for our free giveaway). The merry tune quickly gives way to the sounds of Shawn snoring (rhythmically, naturally) as Yoshimi whispers a loving ode to her sleeping husband ("Your Snore"). Miles away from the kind of seedy pillow talk we're more used to, guiltlessness is all here. You may as well be back in your (baby) crib. It's incredibly gentle, and all the more unique for it.

The concept continues on a similar theme, as Yoshimi surfs the meandering mess of twilight brainwaves through, "The Bedtime Beatbox". It's got the best line on the album, rendered especially endearing by the innocence of the singer's delivery. "I wanna be a human symphony like Mr. Biz Markie," she muses. "How did he get to be so incredibly, rhythmically mesmerizing?" For those creative types amongst you that find it so hard to turn off at the end of the day, it's a recognizable and amusing voice, and things take a genuinely funny turn as she slips into futon-based beat boxing.

Other standouts include "Goodnight Train", a track that I could happily add to my 4-year-old son's mix tape, alongside "Night Train", by Thomas the Tank Engine. Someone should do a mash-up of the two. I doubt the Lullatone folk would mind.

For a 10-track album, it's surprisingly short. However, the economy of each track is part of the appeal. All too often, sample-based groups are tempted into a kind of lazy self-indulgence that makes their initially ground-breaking samples stupefying dull by the 7th minute. No worries here. The longest track comes to an end after 3 minutes and 22 magical seconds, none of them yawn-enticing, despite the subject matter.

Lullatone Presents the Bedtime Beat is available now from Someone Good. The label have very kindly given us permission to offer The Bathtime Beat as a free download to you good people. Start your transmission by clicking here.

Lullatone are featured on our free download, TADA Sampler Volume Four. Click here for more information.

More information on Lullatone can be found at their official website.