New York's cherry-picking UNO imprint serves a stranger disco treat from The Twilight Tone. 'Mean Machine' is their debut release; a narcotic dose of dragged triplets, wheezin' synths and woozy acid just perfect for liquid limbed afterhours and the like. The A-side is given a hallucinatory title track, rubbing grubby machine rhythms under spiralling boogie riffs, crack-throated vocals and trippin' synth tones. Flipside the toxic fug clears slightly for the acidic boogie House of 'Boy!' - sounding like Julio Bashmore at the end of a five day bender - before the deliciously dissonant 'Hydroplane' turns your knees to jelly with smudged bass and fit-to-collapse lead lick.A Mean Machine B1 Boy! B2 Hydroplane
