Double LP - strictly one per customer - please note, the white sleeves have print smudging, as per all copies.
Surprised this one's stuck around long enough to get a chance to write about it, but here we are (and really, what are you all waiting for?). And it's a bit of a left turn for Rat Heart, deviating from The Fall-in-the-club agginess of previous outings for something a little more intimate and strung out. Afterhours doesn't quite cut it as a description but it's certainly erring more towards the nocturnal and the private, and i'd be tempted to interpret these as bedroom rather than kitchen sessions, if you can forgive the crass distinction. There's a lo-fi Prince meets Arthur Russell (ala Pictures for Bunny Rabbit) thing going on in the early skirmishes, but for me it's on the second disc where things really hit a stride, a few lengthy soft-focus outsider R&B/midnight blues laments that had me thinking of the unlikely union of first album Yves Tumor and Loren Connors. It's another compelling evolution for Tom Boogizm, an artist routinely unafraid to surprise and provoke in that classically Manchester way. Long may it continue.
