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Young Echo 'Young Echo LP' (Young Echo Records)
Just one song in to this 24-track epic and there’s a descending tone over kickdrums, a few zaps and gun sounds, and a disinterested, ill-sounding British male voice murmuring about dancing. And it’s amazing. This second album from the sprawling Bristol collective (featuring Kahn, Neek, Jabu, Ishan and a whole bunch of others) is a brilliant re-distillation of everything that makes the city’s deep, smoky musical history. Like a gang of undead Tricky spawn, there’s rap, spoken word, eerie singing and other kinds of muttering over a sludgy crawl with momentary hints of grime, industrial, ambient and a pervasive fug of dub. It’s an unwell, claustrophobic, inward-looking dream of a record – and very addictive. Joe Muggs
8/10
