Grand statement to make about someone with such a broad back catalogue, but Slap Happy might just be Delroy Edwards most enjoyable record to date. Though marking a return to L.I.E.S, the east coast label known for its more brutal, degraded sounds, on Slap Happy Edwards plays it relatively straight, which is to say, he's having a lot of fun. Eight slices of solid Chicago indebted floor fillers with such a precise appreciation for the right details it makes you painfully aware of just how hard it is to do this kind of thing right. There's a song called 'Rock This Place' FORGODSAKE, and it's so shamelessly perfect you could sell it as a lost Virgo Four cut and i'd not doubt you. A lot of records are falling between the cracks this year because our attentions are understandbly elsewhere, but Slap Happy is truly undeserving of such a fate. To all the nights out we've been denied and those yet to come.
