And now for something completely different. The National Trust is a British organisation that looks after areas of historical importance or beauty. They procure castles and forests, that kind of thing. They certainly don’t often release albums. Why, then, are they in the album section?

Well, they’ve teamed up with Pulp frontman and all-round good egg Jarvis Cocker to produce in his words, “a holiday for your ears.” Recorded at various National Trust sites, this is an album of pastoral ambient sounds such as birds singing, people walking and the soft clack of billiard balls.

It’s not exciting, in fact it’s quite the opposite; but living in one of the most infuriatingly loud cities in the world is enough to drive you insane, so before you run out and smash up all those busses idling by your window, pop this on your headphones and take a trip with Jarvis to a wide open space without the slightest hint of a taxi horn, people wailing down their phones or old women hacking up phlegm. Download for free from www.nationaltrust.org.uk

-TC

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