El Michels Affair up the ante once again in a heavyweight team-up with The Roots’ Black Thought on single That Girl ahead of the forthcoming Glorious Game long player. While the intro vamp seems to promise lowrider soul, the rest of the track finds EMA playing the music to sound like a beat sampled from lowrider soul (unless Mr Michels is actually messing with us and really did chop up a lowrider soul beat the band recorded first) with woozy 808 action and skittery percussion that sound like they’re right in the room with you. Black Thought meanwhile eulogises the eponymous That Girl through such bars as, “The sun and moon are her biggest fans – they send her mail/ Skin caramel, a magnetism none can parallel/ From Venus to Venuezual’ they call her Miss Michelle…” You know what – I think he likes her. I can sense it.
(Out now on Big Crown)