Format: CD album
Released: May 6
Label: Get Physical
It's not often you can honestly say an album is as ntruiging and surprising an affair as this. Damian Lazarus has been at the edge of so many dance music movements it's unreal, from his role as club promoter - his PM Scientists night was a d&b fixture and then resurfaced to take its role within dubstep - to A&R man within the electro scene for City Rockers.
How refreshing then to find that come the time to release his own debut album (after many a mix affair) he's created something truly unclassifable. Not dance music by any description of the word, this is nevertheless borne out of the creative alchemy of electronica. But it's song rather than groove based, weird songs that stick in your head, sung in voices that defy description and are anything but easily classifiable. Best, perhaps, is the paranoid 'Memory Box', introspective and as genuinely scary as anything you'll find on the shelves this year. This is the sound of the post-club comedown rather than the music to ease your pattern through it - not for nothing is the last track called 'After Rave Delight' - but if you're tough enough to take it on, the rewards are satisfying.
5/5
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