These guys get compared to all manner of crossover electronica hitmakers, but put my vote in for Surrender-era Chemical Brothers, with those loping basslines, those guest vocals, that tentative adventurousness, to say nothing of the fact that Harpy's a dead damn ringer for Surrender's title track.
The Fatboy Slim comparisons are fair too - the genre-hopping and general borrowing is shameless, and the best tracks might be the farthest astray: the heartbreaking quaver of The Effect On Me, the sprightly hip hop bounce of Something New, the Lemon Jelly loopism of Singin' in the Rain.
It's all a little overslick, not regularly dancable, with a whimper of an ending (World??) - but I gotta admit, for those first 8 tracks or so this works as a damn pleasant little headphone spaceout jam 3.5/5
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