Libby Floyd from Dekalb, Illinois, is The Doubtful Guest who hopped on the Rephlex bus and didn’t get off. Her first album for fellow traveller Mike Parradinas’ Planet Mu takes the Roland 303, whips down his y-fronts and tugs new acid mutants, the opening ‘Slaves’ 11 minutes of vast organic tweaking recalling anything from early 90s Frankfurt to F.U.S.E. in its unstoppable path. With all kinds of old-skool percussion, doom-voices and nightmare swirlings, it’s a mindblowing epic. The trained opera singer sounds like nobody else but herself with a penchant for analogue chaos ranging from brutish tech-stomp to reggae skanking with military drum ‘n’ bass on ‘Tubby’. Maceo Parker even parps up in ‘Drunky’. Suffice to say, this is a fearsomely fascinating new electronic renegade courtesy of nutter A&R over there in the whoopee compound.
4 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
