October 26, 2009

Album review: Fuckpony - 'Let The Love Flow' (BPitch Control)

One electro-filly that puts its money where its nosebag is

8 / 10 When you’ve got as much to say as Jay ‘Fuckpony’ Haze does about the limited creative ambition of much current house and techno; when you consider your own music a quasi-political force – he gave his last album, ‘Love & Beyond’, away for free – you’d better deliver. Otherwise, you just look like a mouthy twonk. Happily, this, the Berlin-based American’s second Fuckpony album, is deeply special. Warm, abstract, sleek modern house music, with a pronounced pop sensibility, it sounds brilliantly torn between the jacking delirium of Heidi’s Radio 1 show and the sweet machine soul of Hot Chip’s ‘The Warning’. A gift horse that’s more than just mouth.

Tony Naylor

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