Dillon Francis At Juno Download

Review: Black Ghosts/Simian singer Simon Lord teams up with Dillon Francis for a track that's every part as beautiful as it is vicious. Kicking off with one of Dillon's richest, acid-tinged roof-raising riffs to date, it's all lasers and bass-faces until we hit the breakdown and Simon does his distinctive thing. With all levels of funk and even fractured disco going on behind him, Simon's succinct chorus causes temporary relief amid the carnage of the main drop. A tune of huge contrasts, this one's all about the party extremities.

Review: Quite who Mr Mongoose is, we haven't the foggiest. But do we care? Not in the slightest. We haven't got time to care! Not while we're chowing down on the five mighty genre-smashing bangers that soundtrack his fantastic weekend. While all cuts are pretty darned shiny, the jewel in the crown has to be Dillon Francis and Doctor P's "Music Is Dead". A slow, sludgy, downtempo electro bass work out, it's like they've eaten all of Daft Punk's albums, drunk several bottles of strong spirits and battered their computers on each other's heads until they're happy with the outcome. Or something. Another highlight, that rolls with similar, slow-mo funkery, is Figure's "What More Do You Need?", a spitting, snarling, growling beast, it's proof tempos don't need to be a hundred miles an hour for things to truly bang.