After 2022’s Part 1, a second outing of eclectic, mesmerically inventive reworking of deep Chicago acid house/ electronica by the shapeshifting Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family with brothers Liam and Luke May (founders of Trashmouth Records) and Quinn Whalley from Warmduscher. Saoudi’s vocals at times have a ghostly echo of Suicide’s Alan Vega across a hotbed of energising beats, oddball sounds and cross-rhythms channelling that classic acidic old-school Roland 808 with handclap beats and basslines. It’s all about momentum, but standouts include opener Birth of a Smirk, the sweaty swagger and sighs of of Walking In The Heat, Queen of 14th Street, I Gave Birth 2 U (also featuring Maggie The Cat), Punishment/Improvement, and Y U Look At Me That Way? (featuring Fats McCourt) with its magical, syncopated, scratchy bell sounds that when listened on headphones will make you think they are coming out of your pocket. But the entire album is energising and if you’ve ever been in that chemical state, it’ll have you channelling old blissed-out dance states, your hands automatically moving to make make big and little boxes, lost in the mesmeric momentum of interweaving beats. Out on The Leaf Label.
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