Negative Gemini: Bad Baby (Splatter Colored Vinyl) Vinyl LP

Ive put myself on a sort of cassette embargo after accumulating stacks and stacks oftapes that never really get played.And I hadjust aboutconvinced myself to be a bad baby and the pull the trigger on the cassette version of this latest EP fromNegative Gemini,whena surprise vinyl edition magically touched down here at Lab HQ straight from 100% Electronica, the label Negative Gemini (nee Lindsey French) runs with George Clanton. Her Body Work LP was ubiquitously hyped in 2016, but this one seems to crystalize all her strengths into a short and sweet package, drawing inspiration from the6-stringballadeering of 90s dreampop, vintage 4AD-grade vocal etherea and late nite MTV electronica; like a feminine counterpoint to Clantons recent Slide LP. Opener Infin Path draws you into Negative Geminis dreamworld, where vaporous pads cascade into jungle breaks and lethal trap rhythms and Frenchs vocals wax and wane between the cracks.She shifts her sights to balladry on the title track, lilting freely between moody garage (*garridge) shuffle and a gigantic wall-of-sound power pop refrain (reappearing on the B-side in club mix form with nods to early Orbital as well as a new remix by Satin Sheets not found on the original cassette). Her melodic sensibilities (and guitar playing) are flexed strongest on You Werent There Anymore, one of the records gentler tracks but also the most enduring. Skydiver and My Innocence are dazzling as well. At just 7 tracks (2 of them remixes) youll be begging for more. Recommended.

• clear &fuschia splatter colored vinyl
• alternate ‘black edition’ sleeve variant
• limitededition
• music label:100% Electronica 2019

reviewed bytom violence 02/2019