The God In Hackney get cut, spliced, dubbed and subbed by two of their favorite UK electronics producers - Etch and Al Wootton - handing over the masters of their 2023 album "The World in Air Quotes" for fresh digestion and regurgitation.
The Etch Amalgamix is a masterful meta-mix which quotes freely from "The World in Air Quotes", layering a spectral vocal loop from 'Broken Pets' over a space-invader half-speed funk hook with a monster sub undercarriage.
Al Wootton takes apart the album's peak jazz outbreak "Bardo!" layering and splintering sections of Ashley Marlowe and Kelly Pratt's percussion and brass interplay over deep bass and a fresh, latin-inflected groove to invoke some new mode of Balearic transcendence at 140 bpm.
"Expansive, often brilliant music which could be seen as a digital-era update of the whirling, uncategorizable, and often brilliant late 1970's experiments by This Heat...in scope and sound it's closer to the heralded contemporary works of Sault, with a strong David Axelrod fetish in the mix...The World in Air Quotes" explodes with the genre-fucking energy of the best collaborations between Carla Bley and Michael Mantler, with the political and sonic acumen of Charlie Haden's Liberation Jazz Orchestra. But again it's dubbed-out and broken and frozen as Tortoise assuming the role of a band ion the Crass Records label"
The World in Air Quotes - Mike McGonigal, Maggot Brain
The God In Hackney has delivered an antidote to this musical mire, a truly fascinating piece of work drenched in mysterious musical styles and veiled lyrical abstractions which, without ever careening to pompous intellectual luxuriation, serve as a necessary counterweight to the rot of incuriosity and holds a light towards new avenues of discovery."
The World in Air Quotes - Heads on Sticks
Expansive, often brilliant music which could be seen as a digital-era update of the whirling, uncategorizable, and often brilliant late 1970's experiments by This Heat...in scope and sound it's closer to the heralded contemporary works of Sault, with a strong David Axelrod fetish in the mix - Mike McGonigal Maggot Brain
An erudite, cosmopolitan, unconventional prog-pop opus. - Noel Gardner The Quietus
The most impressive and interesting record I've heard all year. There is nothing like it out there. - Everything is Noise Everything is Noise
Familiar sounds done in unfamiliar ways... they write tunes that are impossibly memorable, but there's always a twist. - Ben Willmott Juno Daily
A truly fascinating piece of work drenched in mysterious musical styles and veiled lyrical abstractions which, without ever careening to pompous intellectual luxuriation, serve as a necessary counterweight to the rot of incuriosity and holds a light toward new avenues for discovery - Heads On Sticks Heads On Sticks
Hearing = believing - Weirdo Shrine Weido Shrine
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