Amazon.co.uk Review If you're bored with the predictability of what passes for chill-out music these days, (more Vangelis anyone?) welcome to the wonderful and esoteric world of Blue States. With his second album, Man Mountain, Greek-born Londoner Andy Dragazis continues to mine the John Barry-esque seam he so successfully excavated on 2000s Nothing Changes Under the Sun. With a gentle sleight-of-hand conducting, everything here could grace a European art house movie from the late 1960s, (think Riviera views and white drop-top E-Types). However, although simple and pretty on the outside, there's something odd and unsettling rustling through these songs that stops them becoming mere pastiche. "Metro Sound", all gossamer strings and laconic guitars is a gentle breeze of an opener, but what follows blends the majesty and grandeur of, say, Zero 7 with a little of Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys. It'll chill you out, but I defy you to sleep tight. --Paul Tierney