Raven Beats Crow

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Emerging from their coup for the first time in nearly a year, Raven beats Crow present this – the Zola Budd EP – with a heightened sense of both night vision and sonic awareness.

Recorded by the band themselves in their now obligatorily tagged Birdhide studio, and mixed by Chris Shaw (Super Furry Animals, Animal Collective) and Justin Premen (Klaxons, Bloc Party), the blend is everything that brought attention to the four Londoners in the first place.

Playing off their eccentric and idiosyncratic personalities (and alter-egos), bouncing from Pulp-style modern disco rhythms and the post-psychedelic, electronics led noodlings of Hot Chip, the Zola Budd EP is as perfect an envelope of the band that they have offered to date. From the moulded, fluorescent plasticines of ‘Escalator’, to the vocoded beauty of ‘S.UN.’, there’s something to sate near every palette here.