Thick Robin and other Upfront Promos

 

• Thick Robin - 'The Chronic Aesthetic'. Creepy, misogynistic, and aboot five minutes too long, this R+B lite pile of bird excrement is the sound of a barrel being well and truly scraped and a bird feeder being well and truly fraped.
• Little Missy Molly Da Feckless Ho - ‘Let’s Titillate the Ghetto Voyeurs’ (Popinjay Zee Re-edit)'. Popinjay Zee demonstrates why he's the 'go-to-guy' for that 2013 eclectic sound. Cleverly samples Alien Sex Fiend's 'I Shoplift Kohl From Boots'.   
• DJ Ballcock and MC Leaky Raw Sewage – ‘New York Shit’ (Soil and Pump mix). The Hip Hop/Jazz/Gastroenteritis crossover tip revival starts here.
• Rennie Pilfering – ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows 2013’ (Natalie Imbruglia Mix). Trance, Trance, Trance Yourself Dizzy with this slab of lyrically eccentric rolling stock. 
• Benny Singh – ‘Can You Hear Benny Sing?’  Ex Tea cosy bothering Crossroads/Shropshire Doctors star embraces Sikhism in this broken beat electro-forensic spook fest.
• Tiger Lily Allen Key – ‘Retribution, No Remorse, No Repent’. Tiger Lily Allen Key, the scatty daughter of the professional idle layabout Johnny Lass Vegas sings about ‘getting even’ after her (ex) boyfriend unfriended her on Facebook.
• Toovar Dal – ‘Woman on Beach with Dog’ Ethereal, Tinnitus, Bonavox, and Daktari wallpaper all spring to mind in this wispy ode to all things Byron, Shelley, Keats, Rod, Jane and Freddy. 
• Bugz in the Arctic Monkeys – 'Bruk in the Dolls House (Hamble Mix)'  North Korean bootleg of the ‘Monkeys’ broken beat remix album. ‘Bet You Look Good in a Pair of Your Sister’s Chequered Deck Shoes’ is a particular favourite.
• The Orange Fleeced Jester Hat of Warrington and Runcorn- 'Street Drinking Man (Cabyll-Ushtey Mix)'  The cliché is the handrail of the human mind; all flats and houses in Paris have a view of the Eiffel Tower. The Orange Fleeced Jester Hat are a festival collective who sing about their ‘backs against the wall’ and ‘meths being good for you’.
• Torquemada's Thumb - ''Zombies, Dawn of the Bubble wrap'. Godawful pile of mouse droppings. The aural equivalent of the dental work in Marathon Man.
• 'San Antonio: The Real Sound of Ibiza'.  Rose and Crown Resident, DJ Chavette side-steps some of the more esoteric Balearic fare and goes straight for the mainstream jugular with surprisingly shit results.
• Storm Pestrels – 'In Jim Kerr We Trust'  Following on from the success of The Guillemots and The Chaffinches, The Storm Pestrels take the leftfield Simple Minds/Coldplay remit even further. Imagine Sun Ra covering, Don’t You Forget About Me, in a Digbeth squat.