CYRK - Attack Of The Blow Up Dolls (Cultivated Electronics)

 

Title: Attack Of The Blow Up Dolls

Artist: CYRK

Label: Cultivated Electronics

Cat Number: CE043

Genre: Electro

A1: Attack Of The Blow Up Dolls

A2: Tsikey

B1: Ahemait

B2: Needler

Are blow up dolls still a thing? I’m thinking back to when they were, the 1970s, 80s maybe. Not that I would know anything about such things you understand. In any case, the fact that CYRK has chosen to name their latest release in the manner they have has brought back all manner of previously discarded memories. As usual though, titles have ambiguous relations to what they name. So the title track is a piece of pounding electro which could indeed evoke an attack, but of blow up dolls? ‘Tsikey is slightly toned down by comparison and is a subtler, more insidious beast. The bests are still razor sharp and don’t slack though. ‘Ahemait’ uses a descending, low end melody to probe the innermost depths of the shape-throwing mechanism, and ‘Needler’ utilises an understated snarl to emphasise bass and synth which coalesces in some sort of intergalactic robofunk. It’s all good.