Winduptoys
Double Exposure
Clan Analogue
Winduptoys really know
how to string it together. ‘Lost and found’ is not entirely non-reminiscent of
Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’. ‘WindupDUB’ has this kind of Arabic,
painted-mural-on-a-café-wall kind of aspect that the trebly reggae beat does
not dispel. ‘Switched on’ has a similarly wild muslim feel, which has to be
embraced. Other tracks take a really revolutionary unbassy but furious, heady
approach, suggesting that these are not just a couple of guys probing around
with jacks and units, but actual thinkers making thoughtful and, well,
atmospheric (though atomspheric would
be a better word) somewhat druggy music that would have gone down really well
in that scene in the film Dalmas
where the cops bust the trippy club. Sometimes the psychedelia buttons get
stuck and the guys are just there, in their pyjamas, eating Angas Park dried fruit
salad and constantly probing their ears with their pinkies because they hear
this whining noise. And at the same time you can see the most definite trails
back to rock, Public Image (who they cover) style rock, or the Pop Group who
have always been a personal favourite of mine, or back further to blues
workouts from the 60s, or The Twilights or whatever. Absolutely highly
recommended, my friends.
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