Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Household Goods EP (Greco-Roman)
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By: Richard Brant
2010 has been a bit of a bumper crop for T.E.E.D. (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs). All Two Sixty Dancehalls E.P. hit the shelves back in June followed by the Jesse Rose ‘Garden’ Remixes in September, and a couple of months later we have Household Goods E.P.
There’s a certain crispness that has developed since 2009’s debut EP All In One Sixty Dancehalls. There was then an underground edge that incorporated early the DIY stages of many dance genres that had gone before, but as the sound has developed through the subsequent EPs, a more aim-for-mass-appeal approach has edged in, but without a jettisoning of what makes T.E.E.D. different – this is as much an exploration of dance and electro as it is about making people dance to it, experimentally hopping from one genre to the next.
Title track ‘Household Goods’ takes Hot Chip-like melodious, melancholic dance and adds some beef to it in an Ibiza-attuned manner. An oddly wavering synth leads in to an awkward, humours, chat up line “…you look shit all alone, so give me a shot, ‘cause I could be the dog to your bone…or something.” Suddenly that wavering synth joins in again, only this time with a thumping beat and bass. Equally great, but equally different is the tribal/samba house beats of ‘Waulking Song,’ which cleverly loops a folk song sample with MIA like circling vocals taking wonderful effect.
Finally Household Goods is rounded off with the instrumental ‘How Far’ which holds within a notable early garage influence full of bass, bending synth and 808 like snare that one would quite happily have heard DJ EZ play “back in the day.” I’m not willing to be specific about the day.
Household Goods, combined with what has come before, begins to paint a picture of a very diverse forthcoming album. I’m sure I have nothing to fear with the heightened sense of production he seems to be developing, but I do hope that TEED maintains that element of “underground” experimentation. It’s what separates his genre hopping beats from many, many others – and long may it do so.
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