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E Ruscha V 'Who Are You' (Beats in Space)
Growing up in a household where creativity was as natural as breathing was bound to rub off on Ed Ruscha V. His father, Ed Ruscha IV, is a renowned Pop Art exponent, a contemporary of legends such as Roy Lichtenstein. Ruscha Jnr’s artistic oeuvre, though, is music (including a stint with LA shoegaze überlords Medicine), and his debut as E Ruscha V knits together chintzy Hawaiian Luau sounds, skewed Balearic beats and ambient. ‘Who Are You?’ shuttles between Honolulu and Jamaica as he splices lap steel guitar and rim shots, before spinning off into Chris Brann-style deep house on ‘Endless Sundays’. Things get even more somnambulant on the dubby ‘Gravity Waves’, which threatens to keel over at any minute. Stephen Worthy
7/10
