Idjut Boys At Juno Download

Review: Given that they released their first 12" nearly 20 years ago, it's somewhat surprising to find that Cellar Door is the Idjut Boys first "proper" album of original material. There have, of course, been other albums - a 2002 collaboration with Quakerman on Glasgow Underground, 2009's Rune Lindbeak hook-up as Meanderthals (on which they were rumoured to have done most of the work) and a string of typically dubbed-out disco re-edit collections (Phantom Slasher, Noid etc) - but nothing that could be called a definitive Idjuts album. Cellar Door, then, should perhaps be seen as a neat bonus rather than the culmination of a career that has stuttered between sublime brilliance and aloof eccentricity. Listened to on those terms, it's even better than you'd expect. First of all, it's a proper album in the old fashioned sense. Clocking in at under 40 minutes - like many of the greatest albums of the vinyl era - it shimmers with Balearic intent. Heady and intoxicating on one hand, sweet and country-tinged on the other, it's a grown up, radio-friendly set that should please those with a penchant for glistening Balearica. Recommended.

Review: There's been a lot of online chatter about this single-track salvo from everyone's favourite dubwise disco duo, and with good reason. Penned as a tribute to sadly-departed deep house legend Kenny Hawkes, it shows the Idjuts at their chugging, slo-mo best - all dubbed-out electrofunk synths, bubbling clav, clipped disco guitars, vaguely Balearic bottom end and, most thrillingly of all, delicious piano flourishes from Norwegian jazz type Bugge Wesseltoft. It's the piano - a rousing, bluesy concoction designed to tease and tantalize - that makes the track, taking it to heady levels of blissfulness. If the rest of the Idjuts forthcoming LP is this good, we're in for a treat.