Felicity J Lord - FJL

Naming your post-genre art school collective after a London-based estate agent (while using their logo as your avatar) during a housing crisis is an act of perverse audience-baiting straight out of the book of Dean Blunt. And naturally, that's the influence that hangs most obviously over this 25 track debut collection from a four-piece (Ben, Joel, Gustav and Rosie, apparently) who describe themselves as "a company, a family, a video game, a never-ending play in two acts" but never anything that actually relates to 'music'. Such a framing reflects the sounds they summon, a sample heavy rhizomatic splatter of the kind of sonic pranksterism that was bound to happen once grime migrated from the tower blocks of Bow and into the ears of Gen Z NTS listeners high on 90s revivalism. That sounds more cynical than intended. This is, after all, out on Stroom, who we can both trust blindly and have a reliable history of hauntological alt-pop (see, for example, Voice Actor's first mammoth collection). Bricolage seems to be the favoured technique, and pisstaking the general vibe, which will either infuriate you end or send your brain scrambling down the rabbithole trying to figure out the source material (note - some a lot more obvious than others). I imagine Felicity J Lord welcome either response. If you found Babyfather a little realised and that recent Pretty V collection just a touch too art brut, FJL might well be the punchline you're looking for. 
 
FFO: Dean Blunt, Helen Island, Babyfather, James Massiah, Voice Actor