Puddle City Racing Lights

Windmill - aka 28-year old Matthew Thomas Dillon - is emerging as one of the UK's best singer-songwriters, his music a heady distillation of US indie, early '70s melancholia and twisted folk-pop. Possessed with a distinctive voice that sounds like Neil Young on a helium comedown, Matthew produces songs that swell with bruised emotions, fragile melodies and bombastic orchestration. Making his stage debut as recently as 2005, Dillon has made a great leap in a short space of time, producing an astonishing debut album within two years of that tentative first step into the public domain. Echoing the greats of US indie - Built to Spill, Guided by Voices, Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips - and lyrically concerned with the detritus of modern life - airport lounges, plastic chairs, fluorescent lights - Puddle City Racing Lights is an album that demands repeat plays.