OTHERMAN / LOVE IS THE DRUG by KODE 9 & THE SPACEAPE

Otherman, backed with �Love Is The Drug� is the lead single from Kode9 And The Spaceape's second long player 'Black Sun'. Coming from oblique angles, these two songs introduce the breadth of the album.�Otherman� opens with a sombre, arpeggiated march built from wavering analogue synth drones, lulling the listener until Spaceape's cracked communique interrupts the flow with downtrodden descriptions, wrapped around lop-sided rhythms. Sombre, flatline funk. �Love Is The Drug� features the vocals of Cha Cha, a singer from Shanghai, who guests across four tracks on the album. �Love Is The Drug� is ambiguously connected to house music by speed, but operates on a much rawer emotional level here, over a droning synth and an aggressively coiling drum pattern with the sound of a pumping heartbeat at the centre. Cha Cha's vocals drift into a sensual pattern as the melody soars beneath her, before confirming the suffocation of love, with Spaceape whispering over her shoulder.