The irrepressible Eat Static return with another brand new album, still fresh from their last adventure 'Crash & Burn', released only last summer. This, their eighth studio album, sees them once again on their own Mesmobeat label, where Static once again demonstrate the benefits of being able to work at their own pace and with total creative freedom.

If you could choose one song that summed up Eat Static it might be 'Follow That Camel', as it has a touch of everything - atmosphere, melody, euphoria, funk, experimentalism and a cracking dance loop, I've rarely heard better from the celebrative Pepler and Hinton. This is swiftly followed by the dancefloor romper stomper 'Monstro', nightclub bpm's saturated by pulsating electro-rhythms, the track leans very much toward their rave culture philosophy. Eat Static are very much a band who like to look both backwards and forwards, the garage guitars of 'Our Man In Nirvana' give the track a distinctive 60's feel, but the track evolves into electronica and finally a delicious, laid back, loungecore groove.

The search for new means of expression continues on the ambient, interstellar strangeness of the title track 'In The Nude!', before proceeding via the upbeat craziness of 'Byronic'. The album continues to delve into a cross mixture of experimental electronica with low-lying and primarily ambient grooves throughout, finally ending with the excellent sullen technogroove of 'Critical Mass'.

'In The Nude' contains a wealth of experimental electronic dance and ambient music ,of some 74 minutes in length, short changed you certainly won't be. Followers of the duo, of which there are many, will be delighted with this release, and for any true, eclectic dance fanatic this simply can not be ignored.