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2024, 12″ EP, Smallville Records.
Four technical scratches from Joe Davies, who asks us forgiveness for his “late response”; he’s been toiling away in the studio since at least his last EP for Smallville, ‘Shields In Full Sunlight’, and now returns to the fore for yet another punchy and arresting new EP. ‘Errol Dub’ and ‘Unknown’ provide the first intersonic tension, the former track building low chord pulses and nautical beats around an encircling “what’d I do?” sample, and the latter proving swangier, more acidic and low-slung. Thereafter come the two latter, more pisciform trax, with ‘1234’ bringing a submersive Drexciyan steeze to a metallic pulse, and the latter ‘Hi Life’ moving more waterboarded breaks and minimal, providing a ruinous undersea vision of the German city of Frankfurt, post sea-level rise.