Review: Migration, the debut album from Cage & Aviary may have been a long time coming, but the intoxicating blend of scuzzy, lo-fi synth-rock, druggy electronica and intoxicating dancefloor oddness showed the South London duo chose well in working with Prins Thomas' Internajonal label. The duo usher in the first of three EPs based around the twelve tracks from Migration, though the material here is gratifyingly all new with expert Dub recreations of three tracks. The A side belongs to an expansive "Chromotose Dub" take on "Colourless Plastic" which chips away most of the vocal excess in favour of sprawling out that tape saturated jackers groove. On the flip, "Good Egg, bad Apple" gets turned inside out, with hollow percussion and thick, sludgey bass, whilst the album's dirgiest cut "In Todd We Trust" gets dusted down and sent to the nether regions of the Cage & Aviary cosmic echo chamber
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