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Review: After a much-praised debut for Ninja Tune, Raffertie follows up on the success of Visual Acuity with this second EP. A more intimate and experimental mood takes over on this sophomore release, with the title tune working jittery Amon Tobin textures with a nod to R&B and some seriously spacey textures, while "One Track Mind" rocks a gigantic arpeggio riff worthy of Vangelis in his pomp. The space-disco odyssey continues into the brilliantly vague and blunted kick drum fest of "Brevity" while the EP is rounded off in style by the airless and warped 2-step of "Courage Boy".

Review: Bergen-based Tru Thoughts regular Kinny is an interesting character. An opera singer turned soul chanteuse, she relocated from Canada to Bergen in Norway some years back. She also suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a condition that helped shape the dark, sometimes bleak lyrical content of this second full-length. For an album with such dark subject matter, it's a surprisingly breezy set. Produced by Norwegian crew Souldrop, Can't Kill A Dame With Soul confidently shuffles between vintage soul, jaunty reggae, hip-hop, R&B and neo-soul, occasionally pausing to deliver a genuine musical curveball (see the inventive cover of the Cure's "The Love Cats").