After 2018’s acclaimed LP Wide Awake!, the Brooklyn band return with a sharp collection of post-punk intermingled with dance music that mixes funk, electronica, psychedelia and krautrock with improvisational energy . The two openers, Walking at a Downtown Pace and Black Widow Spider have their classic catchiness, the former with a beguiling guitar riff and shuffling rhythm, the latter an infectious glam rock swing and more of this can be found later on Homo Sapien. But from Marathon of Anger onwards there is greater experiment, a dark funk and new wave club electronica, and with Plant Life there’s even more of a fuzzed out dance feel, echoing elements of Talking Heads, Primal Scream’s Screamadelica and the Happy Mondays. Application/Apparatus meanwhile has a relentless krautrock momentum, while the title track, and Zoom Out, another standout, are both crisp pieces of dance/funk/post-punk jazz fusion with syncopated echoes of The Stone Roses. An excellent, head nodding, toe-tapping, cleverly rhythmical return mixing a heady cocktail of musical chemicals. Out on Rough Trade.
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