Reviews for 'The Xmas Project'
Losing today, Dec 2003
And the festivities continue, again another release that can be yours gratis just by writing to the address shown below. This 3 inch CD features the return of two of the Missives favourite sons, Braer Rabbit and the irrepressibly addictive Puffinboy. Braer Rabbit kick in with some hypnotic mind shredding goof groove on ‘The Steam Roller March’, featuring guest vocals from 7 & 7 is’s Lord Nuneaton Savage. Building itself on a pulsing drone canvas, a stalking groove soon wavers in menacingly to provide a bombastic dance vibe that’s obliterated by a teasing zigzagging riff, imagine early incarnations of New Order run over by Grandmaster the remaining carcass shipped out to Malcolm McLaren for resuscitation. Continuing in similar vein is Brighton’s Puffinboy, it says on the press release, moves into the early 80’s dance revival arena with the tormenting ‘Silver Medal at the Winter Games’ and we can’t help imagining what records he’s been listening to. Still as crooked as ever, Puffinboy however does at least manage to get from start to finish without scaring the bejeezus out of us with his weird sonic meanderings, this time he simply opts for a mesmerising array of cyclical rhythms that swim invitingly all tooled up with a romping dance groove that you’d be hard pressed to resist. My copy has a third unlisted track that initially sounds like a beatbox having a seizure until it becomes clear that it’s a distorted crash, bang, walloped rejig of the Waitresses classic yuletide offering ‘Xmas Wrapping’, bloody good it is too.
Unpeeled, January 2004
This track came on a mini CD in the Foolproof Projects Christmas card, nice thought, but a nicer tune as Puffinboy offer a sideswiping slice of electronic bouncy to celebrate a second place in ice scrubbing, or summat.
