PETROL LAUGHS

A1 - Elmore Judd / Petro Laughs
A2 - Bullion / DevoEsk
A3 - Elmore Judd / Golden Goat
B1 - Elmore Judd / Wires 2
B2 - Elmore Judd / Synth Grub
B3 - Bullion / Synth Grub




Elmore Judd’s music is a heady mix of art-funk, soul, hip-hop and pop, compounded by African dance and folk, rembetica and vintage horror soundtracks. The North London trio’s last album for Honest Jon’s - 'Insect Funk' - was acclaimed in the national press as ‘deliriously inventive and macabre lo-fi soul music played with infectious glee’ (The Independent). Its four contributions here elaborate the same engrossing mix of musical sensibilities. 'Petrol Laughs' is an out-pop adventure, musically bumptious but psychologically uneasy; 'Wires 2' is bubbling, buzzing and soulful. 'Golden Goat' is a cold-sweat take on the 'Snakefinger' classic; 'Synth Grub' a dubwise head-nodder, layered with bleeping, humming ambience. Bullion is the next-door-neighbour of the Honest Jon’s shop on Ladbroke Grove, West London, and frequent close collaborator of Jesse Hackett, from Judd. A world away from the sample-based sound of his early releases, here are two of his most potent and accomplished efforts to date, steeped in a kind of replicant eighties-groove: the worked, stop-start 'DevoEsk' features his bold new vocal manner, steel-blue-eyed amongst the synths, machine-funk claps and metal percussion; whilst his 'Synth Grub' version is more moody, linear, low-slung.