Released on Mogwai's Rock Action Records label, New Relics follows on from Errors' critically acclaimed 3rd studio album Have Some Faith In Magic and this 8 track set takes the kaleidoscopic pop sounds of their previous material and removes them from the gridlines of motorik and kosmische touchstones of their past, creating a looser, less rhythm-driven sound.
Much of the album is mixed with synth sounds both contemporary and retrospective; from 21st century trans-Atlantic electronica to the stepladder arpeggios of early 90s house, to earlier analogue magicians like Jean-Michel Jarre, and going even further back to pioneering electronic composers like Karl Stockhausen.