Knowing that you’ll only see a couple of lines then have to open up the rest of the review I’ll start by mentioning the upturned buttocks of a young hippo from whence comes the bassline on Craig and Graeme’s opening rework of The Pact. Still here? Good, because this is one special EP featuring tracks from 2006’s Save Our Souls album given the darkroom Dubs treatment to often devastating effect. That’s followed by the climactic vocal sample which opened ‘Fearmakers’, isolated as a DJ Tool, before the whole mindblowing hog takes off with recurring jet plane whooshes into a spaced, spooky soundscape bristling with alien melodies and goats exposing themselves. ‘The Hikihiki Shake’ is a glorious crunching squelcher with hypnotic pulses and chemical-toilet plunger effect. The bit when the hi-hat wipes its ass and leaps into the fray before the psychedelic drop is proof alone that Silicone Soul are out there among our very foremost electronic creators. There are no rules in their sound, which is what makes them so great.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
