Take your average German household blender and carefully add restaurant quality Krautrock, Spacerock, and 60s pop. Let the whole thing run for about twenty years.

Steve Webster recently took this soupy mixture out of its container and decided to release it to the world as a new record. I'm not saying it's musically fermented, at least not to the point of diminished quality. Think of it as a fine German beer that needs a little time in a cool dry place. It isn't brilliant in an aggressive way. I don't get the orgiastic rushing sensation a Cut Copy single provides. This is a pensive brand of electronic music. Arts & Crafts just sits in your stereo and shimmers with an exotic light that attracts the odd American music critic.

The slow-ish groovy funk of the baseline on a song like "The Exit" is about as far from German electronica as anything. Also the distinct 60s American pop vibe on "Ralph and Barbara" and "The Ghosts", becomes, if not refreshing, then dully narcotic after a few listens. "The Ghosts" especially, sounds a lot like an electronic mash-up/remix of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" and "Wish You Were Here".

Certain people who like thematic music will be intrigued by the lyrics on "Ralph and Barbara".