- Nope, that name's not a typo but an inevitable hook-up between Eats Everything and Catz n Dogz, the men who in 2011 first gave the Bristol producer his wings. If you're going to call an EP Stinky Lollipop and feature a deliberately shoddy Photoshop montage on its sleeve, you've got to make the musical contents entertaining. The Dirtybird cohorts ensure this by throwing everything within their reach at "Evil Tram" (apparently given its title by Claude VonStroke's son, Jasper). Take your pick from rat-a-tat snares, 8-bit lasers, cowbells, sledgehammer beats, jet wooshes, hi-hat attacks, Wink-esque breakbeats, sheep-like bleats and a soaring female vocal loop. Nuanced? Hardly. And it'll probably drive sections of its audience up the wall, but it's light years away from being boring.
Most would describe "Where House" as boisterous, but such is the opening track's ferocity it feels demure in comparison. The trio fuses ravey keys, express train hi-hats and elephantine beats on a narc-fuelled excursion into the netherworld. Rydim, who debuted on Tsuba earlier this year, takes a saner approach with "Evil Tram," furnishing it with a jacking, tom tom-led groove. Charming? Brazen? Screwy? Stinky Lollipop is all those things, but its principal tenet is fun.
Tracklist A Evil Tram
B1 Where House
B2 Evil Tram (Rydim Remix)