CHARLES BRADLEY: Changes
I don’t want to overcook it on the hyperbole front, but this is legitimately one of the greatest covers of all time. Black Sabbath’s original is a corker, there’s vulnerability in Ozzy’s vocal. Charles Bradley blows everything wide open. It grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go. It’s pure emotion and it will destroy you. How good is music.
BAD VISION: Fairweather
The spiralling riff of Fairweather imbues a cheeky demented charm in the verse, paying off with a solid power chorus. Solid rock and/or roll, and I reckon this one is best served live. Get around it.
ARA KOUFAX: Kissy Fits
Following up last year’s solid two-track Adult Concepts release, Melbourne’s Ara Koufax lead the charge again with another pair of compositions, led by the darkly groove of Kissy Fits. There are solid classic house fundamentals on show, garnished with driving Moroder-style synth pulses and a UK air due to spoken word banter samples. It’s a solid dancefloor heater, the beauty lying in the intricacies of production.
FLUME: Wall Fuck
I have rooted to the first Flume LP and if you think I won’t root to the second Flume LP then you’re dead wrong pal.
SINGLE OF THE WEEK
YUMI ZOUMA: Keep It Close To Me
Sorta-mysterious Kiwi outfit Yumi Zouma step it up in a rather large way on Keep It Close To Me. It resonates on every level, such beauty in construction, enveloping like oxygen. Tones invoke the zeitgeist, but not beholden to such. Its presence unobtrusive, its presence profound. A faultless dream.
