LA Priest
Inji
(Domino)
It saunters into the room to a slow fat bass, acid-freak guitars, fuzzed-up synth and a voice that sounds like it's barely out of bed. Before anyone can shout "Prince!", however, it should be pointed out that this is the debut solo album by Sam Dust, formerly of Late Of The Pier, although the opening track, Occasion, does for once stand up to comparison with the Purple One. There's always a coiled beast lurking beneath the surface torpor of the music here, even when it loosens up for the funk-based pop of Lady's In Trouble With The Law ("Now I'm low, I feel high/You know I got a heart of lead, I feel light"). By the halfway point, and the eight-minute-plus jazz cut-up/backroom disco of Party Zute/Learning To Love, Inji will have gone too far out there for anyone simply looking for a tune, a beat, a discernible song. But those who demand a bit more substance and style from their music, people who fell for Matthew E White and St Vincent, they're ready to embark on this weird trip of an album.
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