Cleveland neo-kosmische outfit Emeralds broke free of the underground in 2010 with the hallucinatory Editions Mego-released ‘Does it Look Like I’m Here?‘, now been remastered and bumped up with seven additional tracks, including two Daphne remixes.

Before ‘Does is Look Like I’m Here?’, Emeralds were a cult phenomenon, notching up accolades from blogs, fanzines and the cross-Atlantic DIY circuit and quietly inspiring a legion of noisemakers to trade their distortion pedals for monosynths, modular rigs and delay units.

Alongside Oneohtrix Point Never, they prompted a wave of millennial interest in kosmische music (Deuter, Klaus Schulze, Cluster et al) that’s still present today, so when they released this album it came as something of a shock.

Gone was the pillowy, lysergic dream-drone of their debut full-length ‘Sol