WOEBOT

These 7"s have been around around for two years, they're by the mysterious Various Productions. Marcus first pointed me in their direction in February. XL snapped them up in the end. It wasn't until a interview with them in the (excellent) last edition of FACT that I pulled my finger out and tracked down some of their vinyl. You'll only find stuff at Boomkat, and I wouldn't sleep on the current reissues because they'll be like gold dust.

Obviously the sleeve art is winning, but their crisp pellucid grooves are intriguing too. They've pretty much abandoned the cause of superficial coherency. My batch of four contains a Missy Elliot bootleg, the hollowed out half-speed half-step drunken folk chanson of "Hater", the morris-dancing hip-hop collage of "Biker Walk", mandolin-mania on "Home" and the albino Grime pastiche of "In This". Still, there's an unmistakeable sonic fingerprint. It's refreshing to hear bohemians not cleaving to movements, feebly trailing behind black music, but relishing in their cultural status as privelleged orphans. Not seismic, but exceptionally pleasant.

LP due in the Summer apparently.