Gutterswank EP

NYC-via-Atlanta's Fugitive Artifact arrives with a quartet of cuts that live in the shadows between grimey tech, noir house and full-blooded Chicago jack. This is not just revival music because it respects the founders, nods to John Carpenter, and then does something distinct and fresh. The A-side is psychedelic and properly unnerving with driving basslines, syncopated claps and atmospheric swells that pull you down the wormhole into a world of in-salubriousness. The B-side pushes the tempo into techno realms before closing with an ominous grey dawn. Freaky, and we like it.