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Gonjasufi – MU.ZZ.LE
Warp

Gonjasufi’s gnarled debut album A Sufi And A Killer was one of 2010’s strangest and best. A remix album and a low-key EP later he’s back, with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it mini-album not half an hour in length. Brief it may be, but there’s plenty of angst in MU.ZZ.LE’s 25 minutes. Let’s be clear, he doesn’t sound like a happy chappy: “I’m guilty, in this life I’ve sinned”, he croaks desperately in ‘Skin’. The female vocals on the funereal psych-rock of ‘Feedin’ Birds’ act as a neat counter-point to the shamanic singer’s ravaged moan, while elsewhere he essays slow-mo soul (‘Rubber Band’, ‘White Picket Fence’) and ultra-downbeat hip-hop (‘Nikels And Dimes’). Some of these songs are mere fragments, but the brevity’s a blessing: this is heavy stuff. Neill Dougan

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KEY TRACKS: ‘WHITE PICKET FENCE’, ‘FEEDIN’ BIRDS’, ‘NIKELS AND DIMES’.
FOR FANS OF: GASLAMP KILLER, LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY.

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