Metaltech
By Jonathan Muirhead • Jul 2nd, 2010 • Category: jralbums, long playersThis is like a patchwork of all your favourite tunes with some new space-age groove thrown in too.
This is like a patchwork of all your favourite tunes with some new space-age groove thrown in too.
This is a crazed, driven, based-up brute of a disc. That much is clear right from the opening notes and it is this seething, angel-of-vengeance attitude which drives the whole set.
This latest release from the Scottish dance music polymath that is Alex Tronic (or Paul Croan, to his Mum) is the funkiest disc these ears have heard in a long time.
Paul Hawkins is back, that’s the good news and the even better news is, this new disc is a double and has plenty of Hawkins’ customary venom and fire, which is all the more welcomed in these dark, post-winter days which seem to be full of bland, mournful ballads.
There’s soulfulness at the heart of this album that immediately makes one warm to it. While many singer-songwriters albums tend to drown you in melodrama, melancholy and sincerity, there is a wry honesty here that makes you smile.