Those of you who have heard King of Woolworths' single "Bakerloo" may be expecting this album to be a loungy retro-styled affair, à la Air or Zero 7, which it is not. Most of the album is firmly rooted in the 1990s electronica genre, and all the standbys -- crunchy processed drum loops, analogue sample-and-hold pads, and yes, squelching TB-303 lines, as well as some funky dub-style sub-basses; you could be forgiven for mistaking parts of this for the Chemical Brothers, Leftfield or William Orbit.

High points include "To the Devil a Donut", which samples what sounds like a Hammer horror film, underlaying it with some evil-sounding beats, "Stalker Song", which uses a taped police interview, processing it with various effects, and the two versions of "Bakerloo"; though some of the more semi-ambient tracks on the second half of the album sounded a bit bland, as if waiting for a concept to give them meaning.

All in all, Ming Star is worth checking out; I won't say it's a must-have, but King of Woolworths is certainly a name to keep an eye on.