Rough Trade Album of the Month: December 2018

This is the debut album from Glaswegians Richard Youngs (vocals), Michael Francis Duch (bass), Paul Thomson (percussion/drums) and Luke Fowler (synths/keys). They’ve had two 12” singles out so far and this album is mixed by Paul Savage and Richard McMaster (of former RT Album Of The Monthers Golden Teacher). Solid demanding beats, mysterious wending keys and synths, strands of melody play and shift around as a dancing, playful bass drags you on to the (surely) flashing dancefloor. Handclaps and percussion permeate throughout riddling the tracks with infectious wriggling extra beats. Uplifting face-to-the-sun vocals call out while funk-synths whoop and rattling, thrumming drum loops carry you along in a river of laidback shuffling carnival-tinged almost Afro-beat grooves. With a touch of dub echoing through to remind you what you could have won...