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Simian Mobile Disco 'Welcome To Sideways' (Delicacies)
With ‘Welcome To Sideways’, Simian Mobile Disco signal a return to the more stripped-down club aesthetic (and compilation format) of 2010’s ‘Delicacies’; many of the songs here were made and swiftly released as singles in a flurry of activity in early 2016. While it may be aimed at the dancefloor, it also wears some of the fuzzy, multi-textured elements of 2014’s ‘Whorl’, a record that saw SMD limit themselves to a couple of modular synths and sequencers as their tools. There are no such constraints this time. That said, there’s enough in the graceful deep techno and misty synths of ‘Far Away From A Distance’ and the subtly jacking ‘Flying Or Falling’ to satisfy both head and feet. Stephen Worthy
7/10
