Released: 08/08

This is music to smoke and drink to, or if that’s not your thing, then it’s music to put a model aeroplane together to! It’s mellow, it’s intricate and detailed – it feels like a series of short stories without the words.

Spookboy, from Bristol, joins the throngs of artists who I love to have in my collection; there are no anthems, you won’t want to storm around the kitchen being motivated to wash your skirting boards, but it’s great to add dalliance to an ordinary silent evening. It’s a more mainstream and absorbable Four Tet; Four Tet, if you like, without the hallucinogens, offering instead a dose or two of ska and dub beats with the odd funkatronic moment, which makes Spookboy very pleasant indeed!

Tracks like Heatwave Dub really connect for me; you can’t help but catch the dub-love and it feels just like the heatwave of its namesake. I defy anyone not to move to this tune – no raving, just toe-tapping head bouncing, shoulder-swaying summer goodness! Lucky for Some sees Spookyboy at his darkest, which is not his most enjoyable, and it almost feels a bit like a poor man’s musical allegory of ‘The Dark Knight’ comics – but it’s still interesting.

I’d picture Spookboy in a cocktail lounge hating every minute; I’d picture him in the lounge after a house party or club night, and loving it, but for home consumption the disc holds some promising tracks and perhaps some more skip-able ones, too.

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Becky Midgley