#2650 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau

Wildly weird, obliquely cool, way way ahead of its time: it's impossible not to see this as patient zero for the kind of erratic start-stop mania that Deerhoof, Ponytail, Zach Hill got into. Talking Heads taken all the way. All that cheeky yelping, all that livewire bass, pushed out of place by new wave rejectionism, but with this lush African sensibility to make a harrowing kind of sense out of it. On its own unlistenable, unignorable wavelength 4/5