Creep Show (JOHN GRANT & WRANGLER)

John Grant unites his bountiful imagination with Wrangler’s darkly funky analogue electronica – it’s an aural Pollock painting of experimental pop & surreal funk.

there’s a freedom in the shackles-off grooves, channelling the early pioneering spirit of the Sugarhill Gang through wires & random electric noise. This sense of adventure is also part of the interplay between the two vocalists, John Grant & former Cabaret Voltaire frontman Stephen Mallinder, who switch between oblique wordplay to sinister humour. The creepy ‘alter-ego’ title track, ‘Pink Squirrel’’s vocoder kaleidoscope & Grant’s exhilarating croon on the nine minute ‘Safe & Sound’ are just some of the twists & hooks to be explored on this outlandishly inventive record. “Music as tense as Pink Squirrel & as Kraftwerky as Tokyo Metro comes together quite happily in the snarling Creep Show sound” 8/10 – q magazine, “dark, incendiary electronica…the record never stands still” 8/10 – mixmag.