Gobby - No Mercy Bad Poet (2016)

Gobby! One of our favourite mystery artists touches down on the unstoppable DFA with a blinder of an album. Just a quick note: we are always amazed at how DFA manage to continuously reinvent their sound and style, and this has been a consistent characteristic of theirs throughout the years, so hats-off and dance shoes on! No Mercy Bad Poet is absolutely genreless, a whirlpool of daring electronic sound and rhythms that somehow manage to make sense as a whole. In fact, all eleven tunes could almost be considered a new genre, something that we herein classify as 'crack house'. That's right, there is just something utterly wring with each and every one of these tunes, and we love this release for it. It's just to refreshing to hear someone going beyond the genre boundaries and rules. Heavily recommended.