Give or take a vowel, the music of Letherette is firmly embodied in their name. It is a deeply textured yet artificial sound, resolutely manufactured from a synthetic fibrous foundation. It lives and breathes beneath its non-porous surface, having already absorbed the primary elements of hip hop, house and techno within its inner grooves. Here the dynamic Black Country duo herald the arrival of a debut album in the New Year by spreading their love and collective wings across their third Extended Play on the bounce. What these four tracks engineered in Letherette’s laboratory may occasionally lack in clear emotion they manage to compensate for with a dynamic range which takes you all the way from the sexualised Saturday night of Warstone’s higher energy floor-filler to the comparative ambience of Wecko’s Sunday morning post-coital cigarette.
[Rating:3.5]
