The mischievous mayhem post-punk band of Clams Baker Jr.), Mr. Salt Fingers Lovecraft, Quicksand, The Witherer, Three Piece aka the Worm and Bleucifer return with more songs on the seedier side of life, but also one of their most musically adventurous LPs of their five, with guest vocalists including Lianne La Havas, Janet Planet and Coucou Chloe. The opener kicks things off a new level of hedonism in the form of a spoken word intro by author Irvine Welsh, vividly, and rather poetically describing the otherworldly experience of a powerful DMT trip. Production this time is inhouse, done by bassist Mr Salt Fingers Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft, and his basslines are indeed very strong here, but there’s also wealth of adventurous sounds, rhythms to experience, from the poppy-loungey-funk spoken funk of Pure At The Heart with Confidence Man’s Janet Planet adding soft-sheen backing vocals. But perhaps among the standouts is the syncopated Fashion Week, the dark underbelly of the city evoked by cross-rhythms and bass in Body Shock with La Havas bringing ghostly backing vocals, and the fabulous blasts of Cleopatras with Coucou Chloe, a slick piece of rapping by Jeshi on the fast a furious funk of Immaculate Deception, to the slower, sleazy almost glam rock of Staying Alive. Too Cold to Hold is inspired by the cost of heating bills last winter, and sometimes goes into dark avant-garde vaudeville in style, while Weeds In Your Garden is a meandering, anarchic jazz style closer, emanating from Clams being evicted from his flat and fantasising about being invasive species of Japanese Knotweed to a greedy landlord. It’s another entertaining, slick, clever, and always naughty piece of work from the creative gang. Out on Strap Originals.
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