Sizzling Oceanic Spaceman. Flamingods.

A little like the optical illusion centred upon the visual dichotomy between the rabbit and the duck, the scatty, lo-fi work of Kamal Rasool's Flamingods may either be perceived as directionless lo-fi thuddery permeated periodically by wooded flute harmonies or as genuinely progressive, genre-banishing brilliance. Irrespective of whether you see a bill or a pair of ears, within the heavily percussive stuff to have already fallen out of their Soundcloud there's ample excellence to admire: from frantic piping and thumping of ethnic skins on Spirit Away Away to the mesmeric glitters and muffled vocal samples of Kinich Ahau they encapsulate characteristics that're both entrancing and enthralling. The latest wade into the unchartered waters of 'psychedelic ethnic pop' is the unfathomably distorted Oceanic Spaceman that, appositely, sounds like the drowning of twinkling, astral synth lines in muddy strums of acoustic guitar.

Conversely while their already-infamous chalet partying at ATP may have kept many awake this, their second mix, could dreamily lull the most hyperactive of Barry Hogan's disciples into a deep and delightful sense of sleepy nothingness.

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