If you like the way El Michels Affair apply hip-hop sensibilities to cinematic soul, you might want to check out the debut single by Snooch Dodd & The Pro-Teens, I Flip My Life Every Time I Fly. Turns out this is a studio side project of Karate Boogaloo’s drummer Hudson Whitlock and Snooch Dodd only exists in his imagination – not that the monkey’s complaining – because the very real sound Whitlock has come up with captures that 70s OST/ library vibe every bit as much as EMA do. Two guitars, analogue keyboards and a hammered dulcimer, no less, combine to create an evocative soundscape over slo-mo boom-bap drums and according to the PR, this recipe is highly indicative of the content of the forthcoming LP as a whole. Which is all very promising.
(Out 31 July on College Of Knowledge Records)