Following a couple of cracking E.P.s for Is It Balearic? West Midlands collective Wrekin Havoc return to their own, eponymous imprint, with 4 new edits / reworks. Reappropriating a fresh quartet of obscure `80s Euro-pop treasures by putting them through a 2025 dance floor ringer. Everything here has a “plugged-in” funky rock flavour. Pinpointing productions that pit slapped bass against drum machines, and axe riffs against stratospheric synth solos. 

Miles Further, to me, sounds like a cleverly disguised cosmic “wrong speeder” – along the lines of Linda Law’s All The Night. Extending the intro, blurring the singer’s gender, and creating an arpeggio bumping, fist pumping epic. Similar, now, to, say, The Rockets On The Road Again. 

Method Man centres around urgent strumming and a protagonist concerned with the 9 to 5 grind turning us all into robots. Similar in its modern world disco anxiety, I suppose, to The Pedestrians’ Commuter Fantasy. Its spoken section recalling Lou Reed’s Original Wrapper. 

I Tell Thee Right blends soulful backing vocals with a proto-house b-line, while Doing A Stretch is something for fans of Terry Crawford and Romie Singh. Slower, sleazier, blues guitar licked, and touting a lovesick, obsessive lyric. 

Wrekin Havoc’s Morning Shift can be previewed and preordered at Juno.