Finally! The horn-wailing, mic-swinging, percussion-overloaded, call-and-response explosiveness of the Melt Yourself Down experience is captured on vinyl in all its sweat-drenched fury. This Record Store Day exclusive LP was recorded at the band's sold out show at The New Empowering Church in East London late 2013: A raw and ragged document of sweet sonic violence in a small room, it's a strobe-lit snapshot, warts and all. "The House Band from Hell" in the House of God. Listen carefully and you can hear the bassist crowd-surfing. Melt Yourself Down twist jazz, punk, funk and afro-beat into strange and brilliant new shapes. They've kept raising the stakes since the release of their self-titled debut album in June 2013 (playing Later... with Jools Holland and hitting the album of the year charts in Rough Trade, Time Out and more), and will appear on festival stages throughout the land this summer. The campaign begins with shows at SXSW and in New York in March, while in the meantime the band has already started work on their second album. "Exhilarating... It's what might have happened had Joe Strummer rocked the Casbah with both Fela Kuti and John Zorn for company." --Jazzwise
