FORWARD!!

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Katherine St Asaph: “Forward” is an apt word, no? Fricative propulsion (band name!) right up front, coasting to its finish. Grunting “forward” forwardly enough can generate some push all by itself. Good thing, too, because neither Ali nor the static beneath his croon does so alone.
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Brad Shoup: It’s quantum freestyle! Angsty positing, a nimble bassline, dubby vocal effects. That’s about it. It’s not sleazy, mind, just pensive. I can’t really get excited about this, but it’s pleasant enough.
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Michaela Drapes: Not much makes me happier than a dry, flat, hollow bassline and slinky beat like the ones exhibited here. Ali Love’s blurrily androgynous vocals put me in an Arthur Russell state of mind; also a good thing. This isn’t terribly flashy or demanding — it is, however, utterly delightful.
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Jonathan Bogart: Minimal techno blips and bloops, with a Blakean emptiness (that’s James, not William) at the center. But that’s a good thing, because emotional emptiness is kind of the overwhelming mood just now.
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Edward Okulicz: There’s an air of both menace and sex in Ali Love’s vocal, and laid over the sinuous, nearly pornographic bass, its eroticism is poetic and hypnotic.
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Mallory O’Donnell: Every few summers something like this descends from another, better planet. It intends nothing more nor less than the instant transportation of your junk to the year 3000. This time around it arrives with Leroy Burgess realness, timely funk-house insistence and a bassline that has just been elected President of Your Ass. Please. Act like ya know.
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