NO FACE by BODY BOYS

The first new issue from the Body Boys since 2013’s Growth Window (though they’ve been a remix streak in 2014), and it sees the lads move their soft-skinned ambience into new rhythm-focused territoryIts no total-rewrite, but more than before the palette seems akin to the elegant stance of Dial, Latency, or Delsin’s softer moments - billowy, romantic, occasionally haunted texture enveloping low-end centred drums. Tracks like “First Time” and “Nosebleed” come hotter and heavier, more over-driven and rampantly techno focused, whilst “Alone”, “Yunnan” and “Stutter” balance rhythm with their skill for billowy and highly evocative soft texture that teases out a solemnity and introspective beauty to massage the body as well as the soul.