Cold Mission – 20 Below Zero EP

Four cuts of the purest human endeavour and sincerity, beating irregularly from within a futuristic steel exo-skeleton. 'The Sugar Daddy Toone' and 'Drug Store Rude Boy' are both great avant-garde art to rival any of the last century's innovations in the organisation of sound, AND profoundly affecting pop music stitched together with such cunning and dexterity that the seams don't show. In fact, pop music is still playing catch up, in many ways....
The emotional impact is as vast and overarching as architecture, but it's the tiny details – the time-stretched entreaties of what sound like cosmic cats, the lopsided, 'square wheel' rhythms and the perfectly judged, almost holographic interventions from times past and loves lost that imbue this music with unbearable poignancy. Not an easy listen, for anyone who has a heart...