Safras & Noir’s ‘Ghetto’ is a sleazy little beast. It’s a pecs-pumped, swanky posturer in a West Side Story rumble for twenty sixteen. In the shadows it’s a superhero superpower-off against the Gotham skyline. Musically, its tighter and sexier than a pencil skirt on a horny secretary. Mark Broom vs Safras’s rewiring is a luxury cruise liner advancing on a lifeboat, in a storm, and in a full powercut. Pleasure and pain, fear and courage, comfort and discomfort all in six beautiful minutes. ‘Ida’ closes the package with rolling beats, drum rolls, a snarling bass, sirens and ‘jack’ vocal prompts to bring out the circus dog in us all. Worth jumping through hoops of fire for.
4 out of 5
Reviewed by Paulette