Brandt Brauer Frick have built their reputation still further since the excellent second album ‘Mr Machine’, establishing themselves as a must-see live band. If you have seen them live recently you’ll have heard a fair bit of the music to Miami, and you’ll know they are gradually working more vocalists in to the mix. The Miami Theme itself is a brooding affair, with piercing bass from a really low tuba, and tense vocal interjections. It stays slow the whole way through despite threatening to break out into a faster section. The break out happens in the next number, a thrilling danger ride that taps into the sharp sonorities of the group, with maximum percussive effect, and the group play with this tension-release cycle through the course of the album. BBF are definitely at their best when they lose inhibitions, though, as they do in the really groovy bass line on ‘Plastic Like Your Mother’.
4 out of 5
Reviewed By Ben Hogwood
