In need of a synth pop shot in the arm? Well you’ll find it here, without a shadow of a doubt, because Big Black Delta make fabulously upfront music to administer that immediate musical high. ‘Put The Gun On The Floor’ is a brilliant, highly charged opener, and the album never looks back from there, bringing in shades of M83, Depeche Mode and Passion Pit – which all ties in with main man Jonathan Bates’s musical past. The two tracks already unleashed as singles on a grateful audience, ‘Capsize’ and ‘IFUCKINGLOVEYOU’, still deliver maximum impact, ‘Huggin & Kissin’ has a swooning chorus, while the edge Bates brings to tracks like ‘Side Of The Road’ and the concrete heavy ‘Betamax’, both laced with killer harmonies, is fresh and exciting. With pile driving rhythms and bass this is music that demands to be played loud with the windows open, at the very least!
5 out of 5
Reviewed By Ben Hogwood
