Demdike Stare

Lucky #7 - the best Testpressing yet from Demdike Stare and the final instalment for the time being for a series that began almost two years ago.
Landing 6 months since their last raid, it’s a dichotomy of dancefloor devilment, going hard for it on one side, and running ragged emotions on the other.
A-side ‘Rathe’ opens the doors of perception to a show-stopping bloom of heavenly voices and halfstep jungle, ratcheting the levels to heart-in-mouth effect with panoramic harmonies and ricochet drums that sound like a 2015 update of Windowlicker, all owing as much to Source Direct as Alice Coltrane.
B-side, ‘Patchwork’ is a whole other madness. Shocking in a different style, it consolidates swirling, norish samples nodding to Italian concrète with the kind of 2-step swerve heard on Artwork’s ‘Red’ EP - proper feral, swinging business.
We seen and heard it go off in the dance and can safely confirm that it’s one of the baddest joints in their now extensive catalogue...

• 1 Rathe
• 2 Patchwork