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“I’m just going through the motions,” whispers Ellen Beth Abdi. And no matter how much the guitar syncopates, the beat turns into a muddle, the keyboard fidgets, the bass stumbles and the horns twitch: As in the track “Afro Dizzy”, on the album “1982” you actually always have the impression that there is a Band just pretends.
You always get the impression that a band is just pretending
A Certain Ratio from Manchester work their way through vintage funk grooves that could have come from the seventies (“Samo”, Waiting On A Train, “Constant Curve”), allowing themselves a few excursions into early electro with stubborn synths years (“1982”, “A Trip In Hulme”), garnish everything with Afrobeat and Jazz, but in the end only deliver stylish finger exercises and not really good songs.
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