Lewis Recordings signing Emmeline follows up late summer’s release of Marina B-featuring single LittleMissSixty with her LiftGoingUp EP and we’re firmly back in a late nineties soundscape that include Earthling, Sneaker Pimps and Beck. A four-tracker, it includes 2By2 a post-grunge guitar-featuring beatscape and closer Steppinout which comes on like something a cut excised from Tricky’s Maxinquaye or Massive Attack’s Mezzanine for being slightly too energetic. The best two cuts however are the Rodeo-featuring rapper Vermin The Villain and the aforementioned LittleMissSixty which are very much at the nexus of the Earthling and Sneaker Pimps sound. Production comes from Emmeline’s label mates The Still Brothers with whom she’s worked before and unless the monkey is very much mistaken, she will be working again, since this lift is very much going up.
(Out now on Lewis Recordings)
