Sink Da Funk

Sink Ya Teeth - Two [HB 10CD UK 2020 FLAC]

More East Anglian living room funk from those groovy Sink Ya Teeth girls. On their 2018 debut album, Norfolk duo Sink Ya Teeth invoked the spirit of post-punk. The songs drew on the aftermath of punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s, an unsettled time of genre experimentation and technological change that came with the spread of samplers and synthesisers. The twosome of Gemma Cullingford and Maria Uzor paid tribute to the era’s adventurousness without lapsing into pastiche, as though updating signals from long-ago futurists like ACR, ESG and New Order.

Two is the much awaited follow-up album. Sweetness announces a stronger dancefloor element, not in the form of the disco routines of its predecessor but with four-on-the-floor house music. Shut Down has the rubbery bass line and chanted refrains of early 1980s punk-funk, until a perky techno theme muscles its way into pole position. The Hot House blends cowbells and LCD Soundsystem-style repetition to evoke the sense of a stifling summer’s night. Stella wittily uses the blocky sound of vintage electro to tell the story of an angry neighbour complaining about the noise from an upstairs flat — the timeless grievance that has attended every development in pop history. Who on earth writes this shit - The Financial Times apparently. 

01 Sweetness
02 Somewhere Else
03 The Hot House
04 Stella
05 Breathe
06 The Rapture
07 Shutdown
08 The Vaccine
09 On The One
10 Blue Room