Review – Offcuts “Homestyle”

EP on Rubber Records through BMG

Listening to Offcuts new EP “Homestyle” on Rubber Records through BMG is like… well, imagine how a Bailey’s feels, slipping over the ice in your cut-crystal glass, then how you feel when it slides down your throat that first time: it’s not something pure, as such, because there’s some tastes in it that you recognize immediately, but there’s also new sensations along with it.  Offcuts is not Avalanches; it’s not güven; it’s not Matthew Trapnel; it’s not Amand Val Helden; it’s not Basement Jaxx; yet you’ll find all of these styles in these five tracks, and much, much more to boot. 

Offcuts is a collaboration between Melbourne’s New World Collective Soul, MC Deunshion and Japan’s Yoshi (described as a jungle bass playing punk). It reminds us of the number of these types of projects that don’t extend beyond one release. Yet regular listeners to Triplej may be familiar with Gravel Rash (track 3). This in itself may provide a hope that this particular project will continue, hopefully in this form, for the time being at least!

Rubber Records have excelled themselves again. It seems that they have a knack for picking up cutting-edge music artists of this ilk (ergo the aforementioned güven). Thankfully these releases find their way northward, but while they may not get the recognition they deserve, here is one member of the mailing list that is glad to be in with this avant garde! Bring on more, I say! ««««¾