It has to be said that if everyone took as much time over producing the packaging for their records as Tartaruga do, then there would probably only be about six albums released a year in the whole world (obviously, four of those would be by Machinefabriek). As with their first release by Bleeding Heart Narrative, this comes housed in chunky hand-stitched cardboard. Inside are some individual artworks representing each track, all by a different artist. A little origami tortoise seems to have fallen out of the packet, and is making a painfully slow bid for freedom across the carpet (it’ll be lucky to escape the attention of the cat for much longer). In amongst all this, there seems to be a shiny metal coaster too.  Oh hang on, that’ll be the CD. I should listen to that.

Brassica is the nom-de-guerre of London-dwelling sometime-blogger Michael Anthony Wright; we came across him recently via his remixes for the Highpoint Lowlife label. This is his full-length debut as Brassica; although at just over forty minutes, it isn’t actually that full in length. It is full in other ways however, as he covers a lot of ground across its ten tracks, gathering in disparate sonic material (and a fair few sets of parentheses) with kleptomaniacal glee as he goes. Opening track “Conveyor Belt (On The Way In)” comes on like The Books’ esoteric electronic folk twinklings, before giving way to an abstract Icarus-ish found sound collage entitled “Objective 1(Tangible)”. In “The First Education (September)” strings grate, seemingly scarred by the ravages of time; in contrast “Welcome (A Piss In The River)” spits beats with youthful exuberance. “Mull (Until The Mind Begins To Blister)”, which musically and titularly may be my favourite, rises from the deepest of drones to the whitest of noise accompanied by a muffled drum beat; this is set off against - what else – the airy melodies and delicate drum-machine patterns of “Thank You, Mr Francis”.

It takes commendable bravery to attempt to weave anything coherent from all these colourful threads. Especially if you are sewing through some thick cardboard. Microvictories is a very well put together little treasure, dig for one over at Tartaruga.