- 1Tonight's The Night
- 2Green Light ft. Kaleab Samuel
- 3Tears Of Vanity
- 4Runaway
- 5You Decide ft. Parking Big, pig$
- 6Eye Candy
- 7Love Machine
- 8Vertigo
- 9Reverse Barking
- 10All The Way
- 11Nails ft. Kaleab Samuel
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Open edition
Barkley Bandon's debut album delivers his usual mix of filth, bass and longing. Boomkat's review hits the nail on the head:
Classy debut LP of sexy cybeR&B filth by London’s Barkley Bandon, going on like Funkineven meets SOPHIE or Girl Unit with 11 choice cuts of chromed-out, well oiled and screwed machine funk. ‘Love Machine’ makes for a memorable introduction to Bandon’s slick updates on classic sleaze, balancing ’80s synth-pop sensuality with braindance-adjacent levels of tweaky production under the hood, within an upfront, if grown up, contemporary hyperpop chassis comparable to SOPHIE’s gleaming sound designs and her taste for puckered, bittersweet tang. It plays out like a proper album short story with the constant of carefully, uniquely processed vocals threading thru the warped chrome tone from the Autonomic-esque cruise mode purr of his FM synth craft in’Tears of Vanity’ into a boisterous but sharply disciplined club zinger ‘Eye Candy (Album Version)’. The late night nous is in strong effect on the chef’s kiss slow jam ‘All The Way’, and pushes all the right mucky buttons in the buckled funk of ‘Vertigo’, whilst ‘You Decide’ and ‘Reverse Barking’ hail classic YMO via hyperpop prisms, and ‘Nails’ recalls a mutant Jessy Lanza.
Classy debut LP of sexy cybeR&B filth by London’s Barkley Bandon, going on like Funkineven meets SOPHIE or Girl Unit with 11 choice cuts of chromed-out, well oiled and screwed machine funk. ‘Love Machine’ makes for a memorable introduction to Bandon’s slick updates on classic sleaze, balancing ’80s synth-pop sensuality with braindance-adjacent levels of tweaky production under the hood, within an upfront, if grown up, contemporary hyperpop chassis comparable to SOPHIE’s gleaming sound designs and her taste for puckered, bittersweet tang. It plays out like a proper album short story with the constant of carefully, uniquely processed vocals threading thru the warped chrome tone from the Autonomic-esque cruise mode purr of his FM synth craft in’Tears of Vanity’ into a boisterous but sharply disciplined club zinger ‘Eye Candy (Album Version)’. The late night nous is in strong effect on the chef’s kiss slow jam ‘All The Way’, and pushes all the right mucky buttons in the buckled funk of ‘Vertigo’, whilst ‘You Decide’ and ‘Reverse Barking’ hail classic YMO via hyperpop prisms, and ‘Nails’ recalls a mutant Jessy Lanza.
