The Skam label often makes a good job of bringing low-budget electronic music to the world. It’s often a throwback between the modern and the retro, and Nuearz is no exception.

The title track is a squelch of psychedelic electronica, bursting with huge, glistening fat synth pads – amalgamating every genre from acid to techno and back. The fleshy Humble Diet (who thinks of these track names?) incorporates jangly acoustic guitars into a melt of mechanical beats and rhythms, yet always retains a core pop melody – very much Nuearz stock-in-trade.

At over 60 minutes in length, Saturation Point indeed saturates the senses. Few tracks are paired down to their basic elements; preferring to flourish through a cacophony of found sounds. On Protocol C this mass or wired audio sounds as if it’s being blow torched by electro-hairdryers, then mangled through an air duct.

Counterpoise is one of the most pleasing efforts, with its unpretentious synthpop melodies flirting over brash Art of Noise swipes and more sweeping synth pads. The melodies constantly interlock; the backing rhythms constantly in a state of flux.

By the time you reach the half-way mark, you already feel as though you’ve heard three albums worth of Nuearz. Yes, it’s too long and too samey, and some of the sounds used blatantly reappear on other tracks, which is a bit sloppy. Neither does the music really communicate anything; just a mangled mass of twisted electronic grooves, highlighted by numerous pungent melodies.

Admittedly, some of this experimenting pays dividends – the filmic Non Linear Vibration is cleverly programmed, whilst Self Absorption reaches for the future (or is it the past) by blatantly imitating Kraftwerk’s Metal on Metal.

The closing 12-minute Escalator Over The Super Flat, incorporating a bonus track, displays everything that’s wrong about Nuearz and everything that’s right. A mess of heady electronic rhythms interspersed with pleasing melodies, yet constantly treading on its own feet production wise.