Vocal Deep Soulful House, Acid & Leftfield This is Love & Resistance by Crooked Man. His first single on Vicious Charm and now available on vinyl.
Love & Resistance is 9:59 of beautiful electronic soul music. The dreamy vocals come courtesy of Carmen Squire. A perfect combination.
While the A-side oozes class & sophistication - the B-side is a different beast entirely. Nemesis is a dirty, sweaty mid tempo club track that is hard to resist. Nemesister is the more dubbier sibling.
Vicious Charm Recordings makes its vinyl bow with a collection of cuts from the mighty Crooked Man, AKA sometime Sweet Exorcist and All Seeing I man Richard 'Parrot' Barratt. A-side 'Love & Resistance' is one of Barratt's most magical and otherworldly workouts yet - a long and crooked chunk of off-kilter deep house soul featuring vocals by Carmen Squire that's as emotionally impactful as it as magical and melancholic. Over on the flip, Barratt offers up more mind-mangling mid-tempo sleaze via the echoing vocal samples, clanking industrial machine beats and frankly filthy TB-303 bass of 'Nemesis'. He ruffs that track up further on 'Nemesister', reaching for bouncy, dancehall-influenced house beats, reverb-laden stabbing bass and trippy electronic riffs. Like much of Barratt's work, it's effortlessly
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Last FM Information on Crooked Man
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Crooked Man is the latest moniker of Sheffield electronic producer Richard Barratt (a.k.a. Richard Parrot, DJ Parrot) who is/was a member of The All Seeing I, Sweet Exorcist, Hoodoo, Surface Mutants, Tooth Faeries, White Trash and various house music projects from the late 80s/early 90s.
After a number of EPs Crooked Man released the eponymous debut album on DFA in 2016. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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