If "Passed Me By"-era Andy Stott made deep/garage house - we love this!!!
Perfume Advert’s last release, the dank, awkward brilliance that was ‘Tulpa’ on 1080P, was an album that took it’s time to burrow its way into your conciousness. Molasses slow and saturated with invention and ideas, ‘Tupla’ took the lo-fi house thing to a logical conclusion of sorts, taking a scalpel to the extraneous tissue that seemed to weigh down so much music within the genre. The result was a record that was both wistful and moving, layering its not inconsiderable grooves with the dust of a thousand long nights and short summers. Tunes like Rotted Out, with its half-speed machine funk roll, or Swamp Star with its feral lope, were scuffed gems that shone more and more with each listen.
‘Kappa Downs’, on Where To Now’s sub label Where2dance, retains much of its predecessor’s way with loose, understated grooves but really is a departure from ‘Tulpa’s’ fractured, world weary psalms. Where ‘Tulpa’ only rarely broke into something more direct, ‘Kappa Downs’ begins from a place where those same grooves are placed front and centre, allowing a much more obvious and lively dance floor aesthetic to emerge.
| A1 | Fata |
| B1 | The Fens |
| B2 | Creep Pop |
