Half Silk - 8/10

This tasty 10" vinyl to be released on Record Store Day comes courtesy of Half Silk aka Mancunian Ryan Kennedy.

Perhaps the reason Manchester is turning out such great Balearica right now is in reaction to its notoriously rainy weather.

Tame dinner jazz drums, acoustic guitar strums and under-reverbed electric guitar picks all combine to form a quirky slice of semi-beige bliss.

That may not be the sort of review you'd expect in Mixmag, but a scene is a scene and with dance music becoming more mainstream than ever what could be more underground and counter-culture than this?

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