There's a visual angle, too: download the iFilm video by Alison Faust for the track Mini at www.elsewhen.org.uk. Imagine a world with no Elvis, no Beatles, no Stones, YOU HAVE ENTERED THE WORLD OF SLIPPER! This is what Chalie Gillett from the BBC had to say about Slipper I like surprises. I prefer not to know what's going to happen next. Most records play it safe, declaring within ten seconds what genre they are in; rock, indie, chill, fado, tango, hip hop, etc. Occasionally, having given a generic album the benefit of the doubt, I'm rewarded with a performance so outstanding, I don't mind its conservatism. But more often, I stop it before the end of the first song, in my impatient quest for originality and adventure. When the new album from Slipper arrived some months ago, there was note inside the packet from writer-producer Sam Dodson, introducing himself as 'the other half of Loop Guru' and explaining that this is his own separate proj...