The Diabolical Liberties

High Protection & The Sportswear Mystics


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The Diabolical Liberties release their debut album “High Protection & The Sportswear Mystics” via the boundary breaking On The Corner Records label - a bastion of oddball jazz and electronics from the worldwide underground.

Comprising Rob Gallagher (vocals, guitar, bass) and Alex Patchwork (head of squarepushing), the duo’s debut longplayer is a rough, unpolished gem of a record that falls clumsily in the gaps between post-punk, electronica and jazz. Lead single ‘Sliders’ embodies this identity crisis, simultaneously honouring and deriding the ubiquity of said footwear over resonant breakbeats, plonking cowbell and the screeching horn of Ignacio Salvadores (King Krule / Gal Go). Elsewhere, the brilliant Emma Jean Thackray sprinkles ‘High Protection’ with cosmic dust, ‘Bigger Than You’ is a ramshackle (but no less respectful) homage to the 70s Ghanaian disco/fusion purveyed by legends like Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas. All produced and recorded in a shed, on train platforms, trains, tubes and occasionally Caffè Nero in Cheam when it was quieter than home.

Tracklist

A1. Bigger Than You

A2. Shopping Trolley Voodoo

A3. High Protection (feat. Emma-Jean Thackray)

A4. Crack The Skies Of America

A5. Sliders

B1. Dancing Out My Modern Mind

B2. Fix My Battery

B3. Then We Were Money

B4. Rudeboys In Outa Space

B5. Strange World

B6. Chicken Run The High Street

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