Hawnay Troof has just released Dollar and Deed, one of the albums of the year, maybe to make up for his super-short releases of the past (usual tune clocking at around a minute, is Get Up resolution love an album or a maxi?), fancy speedlines and dayglo sneakers, aerodynamic tube socks make up for superrapid comebacks, yeah people, tis no less than a rather fancy double vinyl gatefold business with lyrics and all the shizzle, confirming what we knew after the banging, rolling and somersaulting Hollar and See mixtape.

THIS ROCKS!!

(Having Jenny from our beloved Erase Errata, BARR, the lovely Stereo Total people and the kid from Deerhoof on shared production duties can’t hurt, good people know each other and make good music)

You get all the retardisco geek hip hop styles with a slightly more polished production, not polished enough to make it meh, simply awesome, if you loved the Beastie Boys circa licensed to ill but you’d have liked them less dorky and more political, no sleep til Sebastopol in a post-grime pre-geekbeat post-crunk post-DIY-Olympia-Electro party, then this is your thing, can you dig it?

Course you can!!

Hawnay Troof- Expectations and Delivery (from Deed)

One of the albums is Dollar and the other is Deed, I guess there’s some sort of concept thing going on here but it hasn’t sank in, I’m just too excited and distracted by the mindblowing music.

And talking about mindblowing, well, there’s E.S.G., their new album, ‘Keep on Moving’ (released by Soul Jazz in July) is as you’d expect, a bassy business (we’d say groovy but hey, that’s too middle class a term), your 20JFG kids would honestly like them a bit less produced, loose as a butterfly yet stinging like a NYC rat (mutant rats have stings see?), the same ones their mum intended to keep them away from twenty-something years ago when she bought them some instruments to play with, the rest, as Bruce Willis would say (ask Bruno, and not fucking linking to that, btw) is history. Yet, even with those caveats, their album ‘Keep on Moving’ stand heads and shoulders above 99% of the competition, and can still teach those disco-punk stalwarts one thing or two about the beat and its mysteries, this is the older sister to that smashing Standing on the Way of Control record with which the Gossip blew us away last friday at the Adventures Close to Home gig.

E.S.G.- Keep on Moving

Just check out the spectral title track we are posting today, pure black bass sliding at a depth just above sonar range and the breakbeat hitting hard like a depth charge, the ladies still have it, we toast to them and look forward to some breathtaking block party at Primavera Sound this weekend.

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