Rat Heart - U Can See Alex Park From Ere / Picky EaterTom Boogizms Rat Heart has already given us AOTY worthy excursions into fizzing ambience, fritzed Arthur Russel esque scuzz, flipped neo soul and bleary eyed bangers, always with those timeless hooks and wild but insular production. Never one to care much about fitting in with any one thing or another, Rat Heart evokes that golden stretch in the mid late 80s when heads got past the shine of new technology and started getting deep into the thing you

and with a 12-page booklet with photos from Maria's private archive and liner notes by the mighty producer

Astralwerks

The heaters just keep on coming

They were structured to allow the group’s collective intuition to fully shape the melodies and arcs of the music

Skippy snares and cleverly glitched up samples make an earworm melody in "All I Need (Deepa Inside)"

Maurice Starr and to Atlanta’s LaFace label of Outkast

close harmonies

this package is as essential and smooth as water

Benny the Butcher

This release showcases the euphoric highs of Dimitri’s remixing skills across Sister Sledge’s ‘Got To Love Somebody’ and Sheila & B

but it took the next 30 years for it to eventually become a Modern Soul anthem and cross over to a wider audience

Dialling it back to the early ‘80s yet with a firm foot still in the future