Rotters Golf Club (label)
23 April 2007 (released)
25 March 2007
Wrong Meeting may turn out to be a pigeon holers nightmare with its effortless blend of dancey beats, indie bass lines and the odd rockabilly riff. When the likes of Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood team up, the result can only be intriguing, compelling and a rhythmic delight. Weatherall has an impressive music heritage, largely in the dance underground, and most notably as the producer of Primal Scream's era defing classic Screamadelica. Tenniswood is his cohort from Sabres of Paradise Band and Radioactive Man.
The eighth TLS album is a natural progression from From The Double Gone Chapel (2004), and as Weatherall explains "It's a real extension of the last one....and its still got that wonky charm we do so well, but its a bit more structured." That wonky charm, of which Wrong Meeting has in abundance, is a strong balance between lo-fi rhythms, beautifully real and organic groove drums, and moody bass lines. On top are addictive vocal lines as sinister as they are simple.
Rattlesnake Daddy has a gentle power with hypnotic vocals and seductive backing. Puritan Fist drives a straight forward and percussively effective beat that carries the dirty slide blues effect, while stand out track, and worth the purchase alone is the haunting beauty of Work at Night. Weatherall's voice is locked into Lloyd Cole, Rattlesnakes era mode, and is a soothing emotional delight. The album closes with the funky drum rejoice Get Out Of My Kingdom, and wraps up an album simmering with subtle strengths and rhythmic depths.
Available by mail order only from www.rottersgolfclub.co.uk and packaged as an LP box set with lyric booklet, t-shirt and exclusive print. A very worthy package all round Music-News reckons.
Rob Barnett, Music News
