Hugely enjoyable, stylish, playfully eclectic debut of indie, electronica and Afro-disco and krautrock grooves by the Margate band fronted by the multi-lingual artist Falle Nioke from Guinea Conakry, West Africa, with songs about identity and ancestry, and a sound somewhere between New Order and William Onyeabor. Highlights include the highly infectious and sunny number Miami, the driving momentum of Black James Dean, which, with a spoof western video, plays on ideas of cultural icons, but also with a twist of humour (“I am the black gypsy /I am the black James Dean /Put me on your magazine … And I don’t know what it means”). Then there’s the space-flavoured wonky disco funk of Mirror Test with new wave guitars and retro synths, the sprightly afrobeat opener NRG, and the rather moving, improvised, introspective closer Caramel, in which emotively Nioke sings, over a bed of ambient synths and slow piano, about our ancestors. In between there there’s a string of great grooves mixing the lyrically profound and the humorously silly, and the band, comprising also Graham Godfrey (drums), Josh Ludlow (bass, synth bass), Steve Pringle (keys, synths) and Tom Dream (Guitar), is clearly all about having fun, which they successfully and infectiously achieve. Out on Memphis Industries.
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