Capping an already busy year for the Idjut Boys (be it their brilliant Balearic piss-take with Rune Lindbaek as Meanderthals or tweaking Dimitri's early '80s selections for their Nightdubbin' mix for BBE), comes this new 12-inch on Noid.
Aside from "Jazz Fook," has there been a more apropos Idjut Boys title than "Jammy Dodger"? Building with wordless hums, suddenly a massive flanged drum roll swings through, threatening to clear the discotheque's walls of all its flowers, only to drop those same folks down a black hole filled with riotous calls and a rabble-rousing speech snippet. Just when you think a lynching may be next, a tambourine's slink and slinky guitar line appear to levitate your drunken, befuddled ass on up to heaven, the track now suddenly infused with angelic choirs and hosannas. It's both heaven and hell on one side and a hot earthly mess in the most glorious sense.
"Fan Handle" pounds even heavier, with all sorts of laser pulses, Italo synth stabs and hand drums. Squawks and squelches abound but it all hovers in that massive aural space the Boys have always played about in (and more intently), though it never really goes anywhere. Purgatory, perhaps?
Published /
Wed, 26 Aug 2009
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Tracklist: Idjut Boys - Jammy Dodger
 A Jammy Dodger
B Fan Handle | 
