ALBUMS / ELECTRONIC / LEFTFIELD
Headed by Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, Wrangler continue to present an intriguing proposition on second album ‘White Glue’. This is music with its head buried in the 1980s – at least that’s how the substance of its sound comes across – but of course that sort of electronic music still sounds extremely modern in today’s setting. There are some really good things here, especially ‘Superset’, a brilliant piece of rhythmic invention, or the powerful ‘Stop’, with its exhortation to ‘stop spending money you don’t have…stop buying shit you don’t need’. There are some cold synth lines on the likes of ‘Days’, and ‘Clockwork’ nods towards Detroit techno – all slight but fascinating deviations from the expected sound. Intriguing, inventive, and more than a little creepy.
4 out of 5
Ben Hogwood
WRANGLER – WHITE GLUE – MEMETUNE
