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Spring Tides: 'Hostile Takeover' (Blank Tapes), dubbed as "Unreal World Music", the press release says Word but I think it's a typo... first track comes across a tight update on the much imitated of late punk-funk sound with unfathomable African (Ghanaian) lyrics, second track is a melodica & flute led, ahem...melody striding on top of a motorik style groove complete with dubbed out effects. The flip contains a Hot Chip remix of a tune called 'No More Mornings'. Blank Tapes are to be admired for their adventurous (anti) house style that continually shifts goal posts and confounds expectations. So, Punk-funk-electro-motorik/krautrock-free-jazz anyone?!BLANK TAPES continues developing its interests in a new kind of sound - Unreal Word Music - with the debut release by new signings Spring Tides.
Featuring Ghanaian Afla Cey on vocals, lead track ’Burnt Out Moons’ reverberates around a juju via Danceteria skank.
’Happy Sighs’ is an electrical rush of instrumental, Krautrock-esque hooks.
On the flip, ’No More Mornings’ has been retooled by Hot Chip and, unsurprisingly, sounds like a lost folk song from the future.
Closing instrumental ’Fuck The Situationists, Fuck The Wildlife’, despite its title, is a benign reflection, a straight-to-tape head
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