Kelpe – Fourth: The Golden Eagle – LP Vinyl

Hardy perennial Kel McKeown aka Kelpe drops his fourth album, also the first full-length on his own recently minted Drut label. It’s business as usual really – squelchy, tactile electronica informed by library music, hip-hop, soundtracks, kosmische and beyond – though the Londoner does pursue an even warmer, more analogue-centric sound, and generally comes over as more accomplished, than ever before. Fans will be pleased with the spoils: ‘Astrolomy’ offers a nice line in suspenseful, cinematic jazz-funk, as if Weather Report had been commissioned to score Blow Out, while ‘Beaks Of Eagles’ and ‘Superzero Theme’ are anthemic, Xbox-sozzled, Brainfeeder-style beatscapes, and the breezy, vibes-led disco-funk of ‘Go Visible’ harks back to Kelpe’s time in the DC Recordings stable.