Why can't I stop listening to...

Legionreturns

...bloody tubular bells 2! 

Happens nearly every day, I whizz through my daily recommendations, pick a couple of albums or playlists I haven't heard in a while, then something clicks in my brain and makes me put the second best tubular bells album on. 

Spotify must think I've gone nuts 

ICBM

It's the best Tubular Bells album - it even beats ( ) Tubular Beats.

It's an utterly fantastic reworking of a classic, but less self-indulgent - especially the second half - than the original.

The sounds are otherworldy - the digital 'sparkle' is absolutely magical, and is one of the first things that really drew me to it… it has ultra-detailed highs without being harsh or 'clinical', and it makes me give it my full attention in a way few musical sounds do. His guitar sounds have never been better either - especially the ultra-compressed envelope-filtered ones which are as near to being a completely different instrument as an electric guitar can be without actually being a synth.

I spent about a year with my then-new Boss SE-70 trying to replicate a lot of them...