Having lapped up the praise that greeted his Mobile Villager album, Gavin Froome makes a speedy return with an EP of deliciously deep and funky house.
The title track, 'Skunks', is a superbly minimalist offering which utilises subdued horn stabs revolving around building harmonic chords and floating over a nodding bass line. Definitely a bar hit for the wisely chilled-out.
'Secretaria' builds from a thudding, muffled kick drum to lush, but again un-busy chords, until an organic bass creeps in. Displaying his careful, tactile lacing of samples and effects, the sound is completed by a nudging, murmured vocal, which adds humanism to the sound.
The third track, 'Bostonian', is a funkier offering which has greater dance floor application. Carefully placed bass lifts the otherwise ambient sounds, while percussive licks pick up the straight four four beats.
'Deeper', the play out track, demonstrates closer attention to the bass line and has the same cross over qualities that landed Tranquillity Bass' 'Cantamilla' in so many DJ boxes in the mid Nineties.
