The Atic label is the brain child of Andy Turner, aka AIM, and a label boss with his credentials is anout as good a kite mark ars you can get fro musical quality. So not surprisingly this is a rather tasty little EP.
Not least because it features the first new material to come from the onetime golden boy since Andy released universally well received ‘Hinterland’.
‘Smile’, a typically funky affair with retro Latino licks and well sequenced mood changes, si unlikely to disappoint Aim fans hungry for a long over due new fix.
It’s equally easy to see why Andy was drawn to the next track, Gripper’s ‘El Ruedo’, which is a riot of Latino dance floor rhythms. Aim collaborator Niko contributes ‘The Womb’, which could have stepped out of Portishead era downbeat, while Paperboy rounds things off with ‘Bigfoot’ - a surprising early Seventies singer/ songwriter sounding accouatic guitar track.
Three out of five.
