Keep The Faith (remastered) vinyl

Way back in 1993, Back to Basics founders Dave Beer and Alistair Cooke headed into the studio with engineer Richard Brown and made their first and, poignantly, only record (Cooke tragically passed away a few months later). Credited to The God Squad, Keep the Faith doffed a cap to Beer's goth past by heavily sampling the Sisters of Mercy. Here re-mastered and reissued for the first time since, it's interesting to note how contemporary it sounds. Opener 'Keep the Faith' is a trippy late night chugger that combines razor-sharp guitar riffs with pulsating, arpeggio-style bass and house drums, while 'Beans' is a saucer-eyed house throb-job of the sort that Andrew Weatherall loved to play. Also impressive is 'Floored', a sparse mid-tempo affair rich in layered percussive and dubbed-out bass.