TEENGIRL FANTASY
‘CHEATERS’
(free download, MEROK / TRUE PANTHER)

A significant departure from the compressed R&B kosmische of their last single, ‘Portofino’, ‘Cheaters’ is a silken-synthed, lo-fi vocal house track that betrays Teengirl Fantasy’s love of classic Chicago jams by Virgo, Marshall Jefferson and the like. 808-style drums beat out a steady 4/4, but they’re choppy, unquantized and feel like they might fall off the grid at any point, while the raw, righteous soul vocal – borrowed from The Love Committee’s ’77 jam ‘Cheaters Never Win’ – is liable to make grown men cry. We’ve got the soggy tissues to prove it. - full review

COOLY G
‘PHAT SI’
(HYPERDUB 12”)

“DJ Nate, Terror Danjah, Wiley – God bless people who make club music that’s both really danceable and really fucking strange. But Cooly G has just gazumped everyone with this. ‘Phat Si’ is abrasive, inward-looking and, to plenty of people, probably annoying. The only constant for most of the track is the shuffling house drums – filters fly in all over the place, millisecond long woodblocks zone in and out, some bars have subtle, thumping basslines underneath them and then they’re gone. Then when the drums drop out, they’re replaced with Clangers talking. A bit like DVA’s ‘Ganja’, but well, sparser and weirder.” – full review

FOREST SWORDS
‘RATTLING CAGE’
(NO PAIN IN POP 7”)

“Forest Swords follows his incredible, Western-tinged Dagger Paths LP from earlier this year with a new 7” for No Pain in Pop. Comprising two news tracks from the Liverpool man, ‘Rattling Cage’ and ‘Hjurt’, it’s no less mournful than Dagger, with vocals crying out from under sheets of distorted guitar and marimba on the A-side, while the B pairs shattered drums with those familiar Morricone-esque riffs, and dare we say it, a touch of the xx.”

JAM CITY
‘ECSTASY REFIX’
(from REFIXES EP, NIGHT SLUGS WHITE LABEL 12″)

Chopping up a vintage boogie jam beloved of dads worldwide into bold, carnival-ready avant-Funky, Jam City confirms his status as one of the UK’s most exciting new producers. - full review

JIMMY EDGAR
‘PUSH’
(from XXX, !K7 LP)

The highlight of the Detroit musician and photographer’s excellent new LP, which features “Princean deviance” and “gossamer slow jams as good as anything Dam-Funk is rocking right now”. Scientists recently proved that so long as both your legs work, it’s impossible to stay still during its double-time climax. – XXX review

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