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  • Cooly G 'Armz House EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    Cooly G 'Armz House EP' Vinyl 12"

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    Her first release since last year's Wait Til'Night' album, which featured synths and live instruments meshed with Cooly's vocals, this EP by contrast presents five tracks of house music, the Cooly G way : stripped down to the essentials, dark, and built for maximum soundsystem impact.

    These tunes have a steely grid more common to techno, but at house's slower pace. Kicking off is the moody 'Trippin B', with a spiralling three note bassline and a quick dubbed out sample of Cooly's voice, over tough rolling drums, finessing the art of keeping it simple and effective.

    Booboo'is all shivery male / female vocal samples and slip-sliding drum patterns that subtly warp and transition.

    'Flange City' runs a see-sawing acidic five note scale over shaky, spacious claps, a rolling drum pattern and a deep sub bass kick.

    Waybay'featuring Marc Perrineau is the most straight-up track here, a spooky dive into scratchy, scissoring rhythms, with a subtle panning melody over dubby bass.

    'Horrors In The Dance' is a wild workout, with strange shapes thrown across bouncing drums that stop and start, build and drop with dub sirens thrown into the deep spaces in between.

    Armz House'is powerful and direct return to the dancefloor for Cooly G.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:

    1. Trippin B
    2. Booboo

    Side B:
    1. Flange City
    2. Waybay ft. Marc Perrineau
    3. Horrors In The Dance
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  • Cooly G 'Wait 'ËœTil Night' - Cargo Records UK

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    Cooly G 'Wait 'Til Night'

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    Cooly G 'Wait 'Til Night'

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    Cooly G returns with 'Wait 'Til Night', an album of sensitive, lo-fi bedroom music, it's lyrics sketching dreamy scenarios of seduction, lust and sex. The moody South London house of her debut album 'Playin Me' and her DJ sets has given way to a near-horizontal, sometimes melancholy and highly original take on R'n'B.

    The tracks swing effortlessly with no-fuss musical arrangements that are filtered through reggae sound system culture and US R'n'B in equal amounts, with a slight hint of dark synthpop wound throughout. The pace has come down from the deep, tribal house she's known for so far, with the only constants that run through the album ' her intimate vocals and smokey synths ' cross-hatched with her characteristic broken rhythmic sense. Opening with title track, Cooly coos about a date, over an infectious synth lead that wouldn't sound out of place on a Depeche Mode song.

    'Like A Woman Should' is twilight music, synths rolling out like clouds over pulsing drums, while the vocals whisper invitations.

    'Your Sex' is a fantasy with synths and surprisingly stabbing, hooky and distorted rhythm guitar.

    'I Like' feels like the opening of an especially dreamy jungle track stretched into a full pop song.

    'Dancing' rolls out drums and a mini guitar figure into a gently dizzy waltz, while

    'Quick Question' plays out the scenario after the dance.

    'Want's' barely-there song structure of drum and occasional bass with a wiry synth lead, is accompaniment to a near-whispered vocal.

    The pace steps up with the smouldering 'So Deep', with a deep synth bassline and a muscular hip hop beat. '1st Time' is all depth charge bleeps, guitars and piano.

    'Freak You' is spacious and guitar driven, with Cooly beaming in directives through a distant voice transmission. The album's final honest, angry and forlorn track, 'The 3 Of Us', comes down hard on an absent parent, a full stop on the romance that the album narrates. It also reveals Cooly G as a skilled rap artist, something she's kept hidden until now, with double-time flows casting off a missing babyfather.

    'Wait 'Til Night' finds Cooly G casting her net wider than her debut album, with songs that are more confident, accessible and stylistically consistent. The album comes laced with Cooly's unique honesty and charm and is sure to win her new fans with her catchy melodies, slow-jammed stories of blighted urban romance, and engaging lack of pretension.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:

    1. Wait 'Til Night
    2. Like A Woman Should
    3. Your Sex
    4. I Like
    5. Dancing
    6. A Quick Question

    Side B:
    1. Want
    2. So Deep
    3. 1st Time
    4. Freak You
    5. Fuck With You
    6. The 3 Of Us
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  • Cooly G 'Playin Me' - Cargo Records UK

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    Cooly G 'Playin Me'

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    Cooly G 'Playin Me'

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    Hyperdub's year of excellence continues apace with the release of Playing Me, the long awaited debut album from Cooly G.

    Emerging as a key figure in the UK funky scene some four years ago via some highly prized Dub Organiser CDrs, Cooly's musical progression has been charted via a series of EPs for DVA Music and Hyperdub.

    On this thirteen track album what is most apparent is the confidence this South London producer has in her own singing, a voice that sounds dipped in pain and anguish at times.

    At others Cooly utilises her vocal delivery as an integral part of the music, which draws from all manner of UK music history of recent times whilst very much sounding part of her modern house template.

    Oh and there's a Coldplay cover to end the LP too...


    Tracklisting:
    1. He Said I Said
    2. What This World Needs Now
    3. Come Into My Room
    4. Landscapes
    5. Good Times
    6. Sunshine
    7. Trying
    8. Playin' Me
    9. Trouble
    10. What Airtime
    11. It's Serious
    12. Is It Gone
    13. Up In My Head

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