[…] This is a release of Three Tracks. Leading off is The Duke, a swaggering march through desert sands, acompanied by the very concept of The Riff, The Drum Roll, The Palm-muted-And-Catchy-Like-The-Cold Chorus, not to mention the all important addition of The HORSE The Band-esque Synth Solo. Suffice to say, it’s great like the very fact that you are alive. In fact, The Duke already has Drownedinsound.com frothing at the mouth, giving it barely enough time to say that it is a standout track of the recent Engine Room compilation and a “dramatic goth/cajun/metal/theatrical mash-up”. Meanwhile, track two, Algiers, re-writes Camus through the medium of thunderous drums, galloping nordic metal and slick half-time beatdowns. Let us not forget the last track, my friends, oh my goodness no. The Talk Less, Say More remix of The Duke is a thing of absurd fist-pumping danciability that although tempered by a shot of sleazy 808 hip-hop will no doubt be lighting up dancefloors across the land that are already weary of all things new rave and wish to hear something merely rave. Albeit rave that has a strangely cavernous, sininster and with a ecclesiastical edge, that is so FUTURE that it has a spaceman hat, a Jestons bubble car and a unlicensed ray-gun, yet so PAST that it owns a ruff, a pyramid and a really amazing hi-hat from the 1980s. I literally cannot listen to it enough, an infection you too will no doubt sucumb to upon hearing it. […]

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