Third Eye Foundation is an alias for a British scenester name Matt Elliot? What makes him a scenester? Good question, friend. The answer-- he simply is. Just as Jean Claude Van Damme was half machine in "Cyborg," just as Iggy Pop is ugly, and just as Karen Carpenter is dead, Matt Elliot is a British scenester. It also doesn't help that he's a sometime collaborator with Dave Pearce in Flying Saucer Attack, or that he's been a member of the ambient, trip-hop, and accidentally-goth project, Amp, or that he, by himself, is Third Eye Foundation.

Now, you can call Matt Elliot anything you want to, but you can't call him normal. He and his insanely big hair have been cranking out surreal and creepy jungle boogie constantly since the mid-1990s. His latest record, You Guys Kill Me, is a bizarre trek along the far end of the graveyard, complete with lazy hip-hop beats and zombie samples.

The record's all over the map. "Lions Writing the Bible" is two minutes of warm, moaning flutes melting into spooky, audible plastic. "I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" kicks off with more feedback than your average Sonic Youth song before jolting you with layers of skittering drum-n-bass. And "In Bristol With a Pistol" is Portishead without the head.

Throughout You Guys Kill Me, there's an underlying current of subliminal horror, making you think too hard about what that scratching noise at the window is, or worrying you about the possibilities of dead bodies being buried under your house. It's a great effect, but ultimately, not an incredibly interesting one. So, while Elliot's songs are totally creative and inspired, it's pretty hard to wade through a whole album's worth of his material. Good thing, too. I was just beginning to think I had gangrene in my left leg.

-Ryan Schreiber