Bunkerpop (LoneLady Michigan Pitch Down mix) - (6:31) 73 BPM
Bunkerpop (Wrangler mix) - (4:15) 86 BPM
Review: After her early explorations into scratchy indie rock and post punk, Lonelady (AKA Manchester-based multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Julie Campbell) seems to have embraced the potential of electronic pop a little more in recent times. "Bunkerpop" is a great example of this new direction, sitting somewhere in between the rubbery post punk disco strut of the B-52s, Hounds of Love-era Kate Bush and The Knife. The comparisons with the latter are even more obvious on Campbell's alternative Michigan Pitched Down Mix, with has all the makings of a breezy, The XX style, radio-friendly dancefloor jam. Best of all, though, is the glitchy Wrangler Remix, which re-casts the original as a rubbery chunk of post-P-funk-punk fusion.
Review: It's been four years since Lonelady's debut album dropped on Warp Records, but now this fresh single suggests renewed activity from the Manchester-based post-punk and synth-pop influenced artist. The original of "Groove It Out" is a taut funk workout rich in its production from hooky bass to '80s chimes to acoustic strums, capturing a little of The Cure and a little of Prince amongst many other well-realised reference points. Her own "Michigan Dub" of the track gets into a more focused club mentality that pivots around a sturdy bassline and stiff drums, before Ekoplekz delivers the kind of audacious dub reworking that would make Adrian Sherwood shiver in his delays.
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