Lean On You? Working On Me? If you sense a collaborative or even transactional theme emanating from the track titles of the new Allergies 45 maybe it’s a reflection of their lockdown year success. On the one hand, they provided musical joy when times were bleak while on the other, they were rewarded with A-list playlist inclusion on BBC Radio 6 and a number of global advertising syncs. Happy days – days which look all set to continue with this – their all-new beast of a single Lean On You with which they swerve being Bill Withers cover artists by one word of the title and a whole world stylistically. The breakbeats are in full effect as usual but this is a half-time monster over which one of their many erstwhile mic-manipulating collaborators, Dynamite MC, returns to unleash party bars. The flip, Working On Me provides more conventionally funky Allergies business on a blues-groove tip topped with funky licks. All of which means you can continue to lean on them and they can work it for you. Check the new vid. below.
(Out 23 April on Jalapeno Records)