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Cinematic breaks, moody bassline stroking its stubbly
chin, get broken into all action road warrior, with very boxy percussion and
effects seeming to screw up chunks of metal before throwing them out the window.
Elektrify is Jon Paul Denton at the
wheel of a big rig dropping off a consignment of madness to an area just
outside Thunderdome: a sizeable proposition in store you may think. But rather
than Spector’s delivery guy being a Muscle Beach reject, it’s hard to get on
board with the vocal from John Elliot that upholds the stereotype of hungover,
shades-wearing spokesperson for cool, pulling long hippy hair from out of his
line of vision with guitar strapped to his back. The soundtrack to a road-trip
that starts off with feverish excitement, before the fast forgettable route and
its typecast narrator becomes one long haul across desert you won’t be sending
postcards from.
The Sketi remix is another breaks roughhouse
placing itself in a giant game of pinball, Redcar’s Chris Drinkel getting
perverse satisfaction from having his backside roundly battered by all the
flipper action going all. Another staple diet of daredevil power drifts and
extreme handbrake turns, jittering up Elliot’s vocal into a computer-beamed
ghoul without removing his shades, there is at least a bonus round of piano
breakdown elevation finding a rare moment to cruise quietly. Adequate shaking
of the room on both counts, in that dangerous area where being middle of the
road threatens to be worse than outright terrible.