Wow.
Generally I'm not a fan of electronic music, in spite of all William's attempts at converting me to his faith, but this is more than just futile techno squibbling.
This is music so compelling that it can lure into an irresistible flourish of swing dancing even that cool cotton-suited character who stands on the cover of the EP looking nonchalantly blank towards any potential listeners.
This is music that not only can but does.
It does so slowly at first, as the tentative opening notes draw him tip-toeing out from the flat image that he so completely inhabits, before persuading him to throw caution to the wind and dance. Delicately at first, then more boisterously -- and at last, out into the streets of Birmingham he goes.
And so the music takes us, through those Brummie streets, all the way even to Teresina (judging by the video that would be the Brazilian municipality rather than the Polish village) until we are brought at last to the climactic confrontation with the mysterious Xavier and the music ends in an apocalyptic flourish.
Five tracks, all wonderful. The maths is therefore simple: FIVE STARS OUT OF FIVE.
And the moral of the story? We all need a Xavier.
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