Elijah Minnelli’s “Spitting Feathers” is a fresh, 4-track, 12, released by the ever more eccentric Breadminster County Council. The press one-sheet states that opener “Slap On The Wrist” is a tribute to the more unstrained cuts that a young Minnelli heard at Aba Shanti I’s University Of Dub. What begins as a harmless harmonium melody riding a shaker, repeter and güiro grounation rhythm is quickly hit by shock waves of echo. Wrecked by mixing desk effects. Its percussion punched by delay. Full of tiny, dynamically filtered twists, it’s seriously spaced out but still seriously groovy. “Quango”, in contrast, moves to an MT40 Casio, and pays homage to Wayne Smith and King Jammy’s “Sleng Teng” – the digital smash that revolutionised 80s dancehall. Minnelli winding whistling, woodwind-like keys in with the burping, belching computerised, polyphonic bass.

“Clerical Benefit”, Minnelli’s nod to early dubstep, races through percussive ripples, and constantly shifting EQ. Robotic, vocoder-ed scatting accompanying the song’s multitracked harmonies, that seem concerned with seeking, finding and protecting the truth.

The closing “Contested Estuary” reimagines the traditional Appalachian ballad “Vandy, Vandy”. Dark, and strange, with and an abstract arrangement and eerie vibrato, it has more in common sonically with Tom Waits than Lee “Scratch” Perry. It tells an unfortunately time worn tale, of love, war, loss and tragedy and fits perfectly with Minnelli and Breadminsters’ veiled, political mythology.

Elijah Minnelli’s “Spitting Feathers” can be ordered directly from Breadminster County Council.