They’ve navigated the stormy seas of finding their sound – now it’s the proactive slew of never stopping the grind.
” What began as a creative experiment, as more and more songs were written it became clear that a distinct, twisted world was being formed. A world that reflects the trials and tribulations of two fishermen with mysterious pasts and uncertain futures.”
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We only share the most off-the-wall ambitions here on mvm. You needn’t look any further than Dumb Buoys Fishing Club. The whizzing brain-child of London-based artists DanDlion & Havelock comes a new venture of brazen bangers, stylised in a new project package of an esteemed exterior. The energy between the pair is incomparable. The first sound we ever got was Formula, an electric amalgamation of wailing sirens, woozy Gorillaz-bass lines and lyrical ingenuity that’s not too far from the shore of grime. The London pair are joined by both Merlyn Wood and joe unknown in the booth – two uncut gems in their own right in the world of alternative punk and experimental hip-hop.
The aim of the game was momentum with this one and so we were met with another funky-bop in Skeleton Town, a swanky instrumental awash with bold lyrics met with explosive delivery, “Hasn’t anybody ever told you / You’re a bloke who’s … Soft in the middle like tofu / And imma play you like a game of sudoku / 24 karats on my chain and my gold tooth / See me with a pretty la bonita / On the seaside.” The song also has the subtle presence of fellow-Londoner Qhairo who offers his sultry tones in the fourth verse.
We have another to dive into, too. Most recently, the efforts of Fortune Teller was released. A delectably catchy blitz that can have easily fallen off the boat to Cracker Island or even off the sultry B-sides of electronic overflow of Death Grips’ Bottomless Pit. Whimsical lyrics marks a pretty near perfect trio of singles, as they display their salt-water sounds of mischief and angst to the world of alternative hip-hop/pop. It’s almost as if Leicester-based boys Easy Life took a dark turn in their otherwise all-smiles catalogue. Instead of summery beaches of palm trees and milkshakes, we get the dark and stormy of incessant seas.
An amalgamation of Beastie Boys and Gorillaz lost at sea, comes a duo with unforgiving energy very much establishing their own lane. What turned out as a ample side project of a couple songs has blossomed into something far greater than that. Now, a few months after their initial single together as a duo – after resting from their own solo projects – comes a debut album in its entirety.
We’re met with the single stand-outs that we saw on the EP with an additional add-on of Life Jacket, a trippy trap beat met with a punch over the bridge. The first sounds we hear that’s not four of the pre-singles released is Chandelier in the Sky; an equally enigmatic song with ma-hoosive production value, a buttermilk R&B chorus from guest Bryce Vine and a cruisin’ bass line. The array of sounds on display are pragmatic; constantly deep-diving into new tastes, new cravings. Alternative hauntings of SCREAM is enough to feature it in a horror B-movie with fierce Lauren Sanderson playing the main role. CREEPY JIMMY features favourite resident Qhario for more melty vocals with a hypnotic instrumental and more swathing electronics – swimming with the fishes. REDZONE‘s crew-cut pad beats make it sound very much like it was spliced and diced under the depths itself – “would you like to take a little trip up in my boat, I can take you from the shoreline?” Fellow alt-pop saviour Humble the Great keeps it less humble with seemingly raunchy euphenisms.
A change-up is made as we find ourselves away from the shore; lost to the incessant waves. HOLSTER is very much a swooning R&B love song from coast-to-coast while THE ISLAND PT.1 shares the same title as Pendulum’s drum& bass, the boys’ version is more apt for pop decor about everyday and its harsh realities. “I could float in the water on my own, I could touch every corner of the glove. When will I realise, I’m just an island, barely surviving?”
DROP IN THE OCEAN is another fruitful favourite that Easy Life would surely appreciate, a funky pasture that may have ended up on the redux version of 2021’s life’s a beach. A funky inflection of really feeling free in creating your music is what is on offer here for the two young lads – a worthy escape for both creator and listener who stumbles across it. We have another two-tonal compressed bassline of fat-lip funkiness and deadpan lyrical delivery leading up to a heavenly embrace with the oceanic sea breeze; crumbs of water playing a part in the dot-to-dot makings of the sub-woofa instrumentals.
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