Black Box Recorder - the english motorway system, 2000

"let's now travel down the darkly humorous musical highway of the English trio, first from their second album The Facts of Life (2000). Comprised of Luke Haines from The Auteurs, John Moore formerly of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Sarah Nixey, all of whom have produced many solo projects, the band specialises in ironic, often nostalgic electronic pop with wry, cutting lyrics sung or spoken by Nixey's breathy, sensual, but deadpan voice. Their first recorded song on the first album, England Made Me, was Girl Singing in The Wreckage, more of an acoustic guitar number, which ultimately perhaps led to this song. The English Motorway System, having an element of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, in fact somewhat parodies it, being all about losing your concentration on the road, has a bleak, strange beauty, and was originally conceived as a hymn."