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CMU Approved
Approved: Eku Fantasy
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 18 April 2018
When Gareth Jones, aka Jumping Back Slash, and Metronomy’s Olugbenga Adelekan first began working together, their plan was to only record one track.
But while firing that one track back and forth across the internet as it developed, they found something they wanted more of. Soon Adelekan was travelling to South Africa to meet Jones in person for the first time, where the duo recorded an album’s worth of material over the course of three weeks.
They announced their arrival as Eku Fantasy earlier this year with a cover of Gorillaz’s ‘We Got The Power’. A dramatic reworking of that song, it showed exactly what they’d found working together. Now they’ve announced their debut EP – ‘EF1’ – which takes the energy of that first track and piles it headlong into their own original material.
First single ‘Living On The Outside’ sounds like a piece by a robot string quartet, long drawn out synth notes slicing across each other beautifully while percussion attempts to punch through the sides of the song. In the track’s lyrics, Adelekan delivers a series of passive-aggressive questions related to race, otherness and the concept of home, leading to the repeated query, “are you willing to assimilate?”
This feels like the start of something. Watch the video for ‘Living On The Outside’ here:
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