Sir Drew ‎– Feet First

Sir Drew seems to have forgotten how to have fun after "She Woman Cat Type Thang" this record is clinical.

So what you get here is twelve aggresively electro tracks that oscillate from excellent old school breaks to boring noise and back again.

After the short intro it launches into "Fat Foot" which funks along in a nice cheesy way. Then we get "The Everything Woman" which to me is a very ordinary track, just a beat, basline and synths, repeated over and over. The first of this record's killer material comes as "IPU", I don't care what "IPU" it stands for but this track's build-ups and pay-offs are superb dance floor material especially for the breakdancers out there looking for the right opening to a power move.

"Green" (track 5) is rather unengaging. Sir Drew's simple synth, bass, beat style seems to be a delicate balancing act. He has to nail it for it to work.

On track 6 he absolutely nails it. "Good Girl" has a very cool synth loop, but what really makes it work are the factory machine rythyms. If ever a video clip was made it could only feature a lycra clad 1984 aerobics class in a steel refinery.

And so we move deeper into the heart of darkness....

I have owned this CD for about two years and still I cannot get through "Mates Rates" (track 7). The bleeps are unappealing. The bass line is obtrusive. The perucssion is fine but is really the sort that needs texture, of which this song has very little.

The first of the "homage" tracks is "My Sex" (track 8), and as novel as this is it is still missing some mysterious vital ingredient that will draw a listener in. As I said earlier, clinical.

Track 9 "Shemale" is another of the breaksy type tracks where Sir Drew hits the nail on the head. It is another head nodder, and it is drawn together by its engaging synth loop.

"Six til Eight" is the most reminiscient of "She Woman cat Type Thang", but Sir Drew lets what should be a happy slightly silly track get bogged down in permutations, and it ends up being another excercise in style.

Track 11 "Wet Leather" is for me the true low point here, I just do not want to listen to it at all, so sadly I can't review it. What I have managed to get through borders on repellent.

Things, however, are looking decidedly up by the final track (12) "Me I Was a Numanoid". This is the second of the "homage" tracks, this one in honour of "Cars" by Gary Numan, and it is pretty good. The distinct "Cars" melody is here but vastly slowed down and, er, "porned up" more than a little.

So there you are. When Sir Drew is funking around things go his way, when he tries too hard things get bad. If you see this record cheap pick it up, don't fork out AUD34.95 like I did.