Reviews of "My Little Hula Girl / Animal Boum!"

Here be, here be, a three track intro (‘My Little Hula Girl/Animal Boum’) to Listen With Sarah’s cut-up world of abstract collage wiv big heads glued with love onto ikkle bodees. Fings like that. In my head, anyway. Sheepy wigs onto cows, bunny-ears onto Andy Kershaw. They all inhabit Sarah’s zoo, particularly the latter who appears often in her work and is a keen supporter of it. ‘My Little Hula Girl’ whips bits from web address call-outs off her radio, with Marc Riley, Da Bank and Louise Kattenhorn, cut into weeny bits and turned into jigsaw-jumble. Or a jumble-sale jigsaw. All the wrong bits, or not enough bits, dunno, but…but…crash, bang, wallop, what a picture. Dubyadubyadubyadot n’that, all painted into a hula-surf sway, a theme that appears often in her work. ‘Animal Boum’ reworks her Festive Fifty favourite ‘Animal Hop’, and here a little horn gets added to the fuzzy-felt farmyard like a moth upon which a book has been hastily closed. ‘Drum N’ Berceuse’ is another old favourite, with its junglist Playschool skippery. ‘The World Of Listen With Sarah’ is the more recent gear, with more Kershaw (‘Ramblin’ Andy’) as he’s re-cut into rapid travelogue over a glitchy squeeze-box hoe-down jaunt. Also here are Trumptonphilic hula-folk mantrics (‘Tempus Trumpus’), speech-impedimental mandrigal convergence loops (‘Bored of Techno/Can’t Speak Now’) and a farmyard noise-wheel dig into underground old-school techno, or something (‘Real Jungle High’). A big in-joke factor, but Sarah is coming up alongside People Like Us in the playful re-appropriation stakes, and is wrapping around the championship belt, as master of the jigger-re-jig, as we speak.

Skif for Vanity Project.

Cherryade's trail of corruption and bribery in the form of slipping in a few sweeties with each release continues. As does their habit of releasing stuff that many labels would class as commercial suicide but which in fact is doing DIY music massive favours. 'My Little Hula ( WWW remix)' is a tropical sounding ditty overlaid with heavy northern accents musing over 'www', 'dotcom', 'dotorg' and 'the internet'. It shouldn't work. It has no right to work. But it is a joyously whimiscal track that cannot fail to please.

'Animal Boum!' is a variation on the theme with farmyard animal samples looped over a slow drum pattern with some antique horn sounds thrown in for a bit of accompaniment. Final track 'Drum n Berceuse' is the nearest thing to 'normal' a breakbeat drum n bass set over samples of old school BBC announcements and parlour piano playing and is heading towards the direction of Bentley Rhythm Ace. All good thanks.

SB for Tasty.