West Midlands’ Wrekin Havoc team up with Manchester’s Talking Drums for a trio of boutique edits. Each one expertly extended out to around 10 minutes. 

Leccy Meet Her is powerful, Laura Brannigan-like Euro pop. A brash, brightly coloured, spandex-clad, leg-warmer sporting dance-ercise workout. Boogie tempo’d cosmic disco that burns in the fire of electric desire. 

Conga’d, bongo’d and triangle’d Mars Bar Party is plugged-in proto-house, with racing, bionic bass, and charming, cute, couplets. Rolling anthem, arms-in-the-air piano punctuating the plaintive male vocal.

Shine A Light, though, is the star here. Already heavily championed by DJ Harvey, this chunkily chugs to a stop / start funk – kinda like Prince’s Alphabet Street meets Cameo’s Word Up. There’s great, grungy thunder-thumbed bass and razor sharp guitar, and the chorus is catchy, sing along, high-pitched and heartfelt / histrionic. I imagine the guy belting it out having big hair.  Stitched together with squelchier sections, it’s a rocky strut, with excited gospel-esque shouts and hollers. A Stones-y, wanna be Jagger, swagger. A tad INXS. A little bit Simple Minds.

Wrekin Havoc’s Drum Chums Vol. 11 can be ordered directly from Talking Drums.