Post Office records

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	Mathematicae
	Western Mantra
	Faradays Folly
	JJ
	Time Shaft
POR 15 Principae Mathematicae Ministry of Defiance 13/05/05

David Handford has previously released a couple of things as Ministry of Defiance, notably the Chapel Couture album, from which two of these tracks are drawn. Eerie samples on a short loop, rumbling space drone, dub stripped of reggae and dragged to its logical conclusion, and the sort of muggy fuzzstorms that lovers of the truly outre will jump at.
Noel Gardner - Sound Nation - June 2005

Post Office Records is one of those hybrid labours of love/monuments of dogged persistence that you can't help but admire. It's run by David Handford from an outpost in Northern Pembrokeshire to showcase his own music together with that of a few fellow travellers - since its inception in 2001, POR has mustered 15 rough-hewn, spartan and invigorating releases. Principae Mathematicae is no exception - it's the third collection by Handford's Ministry Of Defiance alter ego, and it's a brief, bracing collection of handmade textures helped along from time to time by nervy, skittering beats. Handford inhabits a determinedly post-industrial landscape, and the influence of TG and the like is never entirely absent - the steady, looming pulse and monochrome shivers of "Western Mantra" is typical of the overall mood. But while bleak, this Ministry Of Defiance is never competely indigestible. These compositions acknowledge, however subtly, that an act of creativity is never completely nihilistic, and even the rasping, cybernetic breathing that underpin's "Faraday's Folly" somehow manages to draw the listener in. And the enmeshed, quivering organ of the final piece "Time Shaft" borders on the triumphant.
Chris Sharp - The Wire - August 2005

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