LA PRIEST
Inji
June 29 2015 (Domino)
8/10
Words: Alison Mack
It's been eight years since he put out the single 'Engine' (on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy label), and five since his former band Late Of The Pier disintigrated. But aside from his participating as a touring member of New Zealand's Connan Mockasin and flitting in and out with Egyptian Hip Hop and Filthy Dukes, Sam Dust's (real name Sam Eastgate) LA PRIEST guise has been in abeyance.
However, he returns now with the impressively imaginative and avant-garde 'Inji. The self-produced ten-track album is full of little touches and nuances that work so well as a whole, despite their mixed genre leanings, from synthpop, to funk and psych rock.
There's 'Oino' with its big rock guitar interwoven with racing percussion, and crackling synth; the eight-minute long funky bliss on single cut 'Party Zute/Learning to Love'; the drum machines and bass melody of 'Night Train', and ‘Occasion’, a slower paced drum and bass track that is augmented by distorted guitar and synth quivers - all adding to a debut that is individual enough to stand royally apart.
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