- Wisdom Teeth started out releasing dependable UK club gear (Hodge, Acre, Wen) before March's On Line, Vol 1 swerved off the dance floor. Its next record suggests a further broadening of scope. Where On Line, Vol 1 still featured bass producers like Simo Cell and label cofounder K-Lone, the label's next signing, Freerotation regular Duckett, is more of a house guy. (At least, that's the pulse underpinning recent records for Galdoors and Greta Cottage Workshop.) He grazes the label's former aesthetic on "She Answered Back Through No Medium," whose dulled drums duck and dive in syncopated techno shapes. The beat gets some unexpected muscle in the last two minutes, but it remains in Duckett's pillowy universe. Elsewhere he burrows deeper into the spaces opened up by his modular gear, making for one of his most zonked records in a while.
"Black Sheep" opens the record in light-dappled stasis, with synths trilling like songbirds over splashes of swung percussion. On "Ghosts Of African Women," the clunky association drawn by the title betrays the music's delicacy—its wickerwork of kalimba-like synth tones is gentle and strange, and gets stranger as the track goes on. "When You Call Me Out" is slouching bedroom dub, led by a chin-on-chest Rhodes solo. By the time the track subsides in a shimmer of delay, we're miles away from where Wisdom Teeth started.
TracklistA1 Black Sheep
A2 She Answered Back Through No Medium
B1 Ghosts Of African Women
B2 When You Call Me Out