Leggo Beast is Murray Clarke, a veteran switch doctor who happens to also be one half of Pork outfit the Bullitnuts and a former member of Opik. His debut Leggo Beast LP, 'From Here To G', hit the racks last year and although it didn't set the world alight, did cause a mild fuss in the right areas.
This follow up is much in the same vein. Taking a largely programming 'n' sampladelic approach, Clarke has decided to enhance his computer generated sounds with flute from Moss and guitar from Steve Cobby (Fila Brazilia). These help give the album a quite addictive insouciance.
In terms of moods and tempos 'Sines and Cymbals' is quite diverse. 'Smells Good' rides a house-inspired rhythm that breaks all too effortlessly into a rolling breakbeat and is smothered by cheerful, jazzual key washes, light guitar and soulful vocal nuggets. But 'Kayenta' on the other hand never really reaches a beat-peak, preferring instead to float around, albeit in a pleasing fashion.
For 'Sergei', Clarke brings his love of spacious dub sounds to the music, while 'Taxed n Tested' borrows a b line from the James brown school of funk and tops it off with some quirky atmospherics and a nice old skool soul sample. There's some humorous sample interludes to keep the human element ticking along and although there's quite a lot of music like this around a lot of it coming from Pork and Fila Brazilia as an album of vaguely experimental and chilled out head-nod nuggets, this works.
