- Before now, Matt Edwards' Rekid alias was inactive for close to a decade. It had a nice little run in the mid-2000s, and the releases on Soul Jazz were particularly compelling. The Lost Star EP brought together silky Rhodes, crisp digital shards and grainy disco snippets, while 85 Space / Retroactive married stiff Italo synths and proggy disco to a door-busting drum kit.
The arrangements on those records were finely balanced, but Tuesday Bluesday's lustrous disco samples are sometimes muscled out by an outsized 909. That's less of a problem on the title track, a terrific DJ Nature-style banger with guitar licks that glide over an earthy bassline and thick open hi-hats. On "Mars," however, the kicks are overwhelming. A gorgeous, Middle Eastern-sounding string section loops around gloopy hand drums, shakers and other doses of percussion, but the stiff 4/4 stomp holds it all back. The track struggles to remain interesting as it churns endlessly through its 16-bar loop.
TracklistA1 Tuesday Bluesday
B1 Mars
B2 Wave