“On their mettle, Hung and Power are Jackson Pollock in producer form, grappling with the abstract and going where the narcotics take them.”
Les Savvy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends
“It’s left to the pounding chaos of Rage In The Plague Age with it’s triumphant valedictory “Draw up the draw bridge, draw down the blinds, everyone in here’s getting high tonight” to enunciate what they’re all about.”
Cabaret Voltaire – The Crackdown review
“This then was the landscape of Dick’s A Scanner Darkly set to music; Kirk’s sibilant vocals, devoid of tone or melody bearing the inhuman quality of a mendacious autopilot. “
Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
“Yours Truly…is as much of an improvement as it had to be, both musically and spiritually and comes equipped with a healthy dose of much-needed closing time realism.”
Metro Area – Metro Area review
“Metro Area is funkier than Prince jamming with George Clinton and contains a panoply of liberally mixed cultural props and metaphors drawn from diverse ports such as original NYC B-Boy street and flamenco.”
Speedy J – Ginger review
“Ginger was a seamless blend of full length pieces and shorter fills exploring the post club experience, highlighting Paap’s skill in producing a body of work that is both highly evocative but genuinely listenable.”
BT – Ima review
Ima’s obliquely nods to seven years of post acid house history, when all of the optimism, warmth and stranger-hugging reflexivity were coalesced that the results were most effective.”
Midlake – Antiphon
“If Midlake scored this record as an essay themselves, they’d probably have scribbled in the margins “Progress” in red.”
HAIM – Days Are Gone review
“Maybe the three of them can’t stand each other borrowing their deodorant, or all cheat at Scrabble; they do however make music so unfettered by cool that it’s hard not to love.”
Franz Ferdinand – Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Originally Released 26th August 2013. Review originally published 30th September 2013. The problems which dogged the recording of Franz’ last…