Seven years since their last LP together, and many different projects in the meantime, Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi and Eccentronic Research Council’s Dean Honer and Adrian Flanagan return with their clever, witty electro-dance satire on a dystopian world, with guests including Iggy Pop, Nadine Shah, Jessica Winter and actor Ewen Bremner. The latter, best known for his role as Spud in Transpotting, opens the album with a funny, angry narrative on Some People’s Music. With something of a reboot with excellent new touring musicians though no Saul Adamczewksi nor Self Esteem’s Rebecca Taylor involved, their chaotic live shows are still as much fun as ever. With Saoudi (as Johnny Rocket) in fully mischievous performance artist dress-up mode, full of oddball vocal sounds and occasional Leonard Cohen/Alan Vega of Suicide impressions (and wearing various items including pineapple on his nipples wrapped in clingfilm), standout tracks include the tongue-in-cheek disco fever of Sign Of A Man, the spacey, surreal, smoky Roustabout (with Nadine Shah), a tender performance by Iggy Pop on It’s Where I’m From, the psychedelic, Bowie-esque The Insects Have Been Shat On, the Middle Eastern rave fusion of Yama Yama, Jessica Winter on the disco pop of Stink Foot, the catchy experimental electro-pop of Give Me More, and the crazily intense, stop-start silly closer The Krack Drought Suite (Pts 1-3). It’s an absolute joy to see these clever astronautical agents of creative chaos return, summoning events where literally anything can happen. Out on Transgressive.
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