Egyptian Hip Hop At Juno Download

Review: Manchester 4 piece electronic pop act Egyptian Hip Hop may not seem like the most obvious outfit to arrive on R&S, but their hazy vocal electronica has much in common with recent R&S family Bullion and Vondelpark. Although the low-key opener "Tobago" and "Yoro Diallo", with their math-rock precision and understated vocals suggest Good Don't Sleep to be a more abstract experience, tracks like "The White Falls" and "Strange Vale" show them to be capable of crafting pop songs with a classic structure but with the kind of charmingly wonky quality of a band like Metronomy.

Review: With just a pair of low-key releases to their name thus far, Egyptian Hip Hop step up to the ever-steady R&S with this powerful synth-pop track which should find a mass crossover appeal. There's no doubt the Wolf + Lamb crew will be swooning over the impeccable 80s stylings, but in truth the British band pull off the feat with far more conviction than most of their analogue machine mining peers. It's all in the delicate delivery which captures the kind of fragility that made some of the original synth pop so arresting, from considered arpeggios to tender pads and underpinned by distant, gated drums.