The spiky "A Tourist Town" draws its inspiration from Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" and quotes the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime, " while "This Place Is on TV" reveals its interest in morphing chamber pop into electronica.
He spent 13 years compiling the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, tramping the fells in all weathers at weekends, with raincoat, map and camera.