Warmduscher – Too Cold To Hold review

Trying to confound your audience – especially when that audience might put politely not be that big – is a bold strategy for any artist, but for Warmduscher it’s become something of a path to steer themselves by. Formed out of the same grubby South London scene as the DNA-sharing Fat White Family, Too Cold to Hold is the sextet’s fifth album, created out of an approach which bassist Ben Romans-Hopcraft describes as ‘Chaos..in every aspect.’

Being nocturnal scallywags can also help with your contacts folder: both novelist Irvine Welsh and Confidence Man dominatrix-in-waiting Janet Planet make appearances here, the former kicking things off with a lysergic spoken word introduction.

They’re joined by Lianne La Havas who cameos on Body Shock, but the star of the show is singer Clams Baker Jr, who in a similar vein to the Viagra Boys Sebastian Murphy acts as a demented sounding MC and sleazy raconteur. Musically the background is a concoction of funk, jazz, post punk and lounge, one which Baker just about makes hang together on the title track, Fashion Week and the darkly comic Top Shelf. Confounding their audience? They’re going to love it – and so might you.

You can read a full review here.