Gang Colours - In Your Gut Like a Knife

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  • It's too early to liken Gang Colours to Four Tet or Floating Points but they're as good a reference point as any when describing this perplexing EP from the Southampton based artist from Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. Introduced to the label A&R by future stable mate Ghostpoet, Gang Colours made some appearances on the Bubblers compilation series and remixed Ghostpoet's haunting "Cash & Carry Me Home" before being signed proper and dropping this, his debut EP. Perhaps it's not as "tricky" to get as the introduction may have you believe: It's just that Gang Colours' work seems steeped in contradiction, making it difficult to understand if he's going for beauty or menace, dance floor or beanbag. Usually there is no modus operandi, so for the sake of being objective, it's more the EP's title that confuses. "Dancing around the Subject" is trippy but is just club-oriented enough to potentially work while the EP's title track is a slow burning breathy mid-tempo groover. On "Fireworks in Pocket" long strummed acoustic guitar chords echo out while beautifully subtle clicky hi-hats pitter-patter on top, punctuated by the sort of tight clavi bassline Herbert used circa Around the House. These elements are undone by pitch modulating oscillators that take almost into psychedelic territory. It's a sound he's fond of. It's one of the few sounds that you'll hear throughoutïwhether you want to or notoand it's what strikes him out as unlike almost anyone else out there at the moment.
  • Tracklist
      01. Village & City 02. Fireworks in Pocket 03. Dance Around the Subject 04. In Your Gut Like a Knife
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