BEAT SPACEK: Modern Streets; CD (Ninja Tune – 2015)
$14.00
Experimental, Electronic, Drum and Bass, Electronica, Ninja Tune; CD (2015) Used
Spacek’s ability to breeze over hectic beats is evident from opener “I Wanna Know”, a snare drum skitter right out of an old jungle track sliding beneath him, while on “Tonight”, he whispers sweet nothings about being VIP over a flipped Afrobeat sample. At moments like this, Spacek’s penchant for twisting beats feels like child’s play, most evidently on the halting claps and bleeps of “Gotta Get Some Music”, where he and his kids titter about that very phrase. And amid the shortwave squeals of “Back to School” are strange background vocals that might make you wonder if Spacek has been listening to early Prince or else early Ariel Pink.
