Esg
Keep On Moving (indie)
Repressed LP on Neon Orange Vinyl, includes download card. It feels like someone left the light on in the studio and it
all just ran itself, there had been a funky human input earlier in the day but, by a Darwinian machine-led kind of
osmosis, the tracks recorded spent the wee small hours self-reducing and simplifying themselves. Marinated in music. "I
believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil," said Truman Capote. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,"
opined Leonardo da Vinci much earlier in proceedings. Yes, it's the space around the object, what you leave out that
makes what you leave in so important. ESG know this. Sure they can play the game but it's the swagger of the groove and
the minimal topping like an anti-cup cake that makes this unique New York sisterhood so appealing on 'Keep On Moving'.
Sampled on TV ads, lauded by critics and swooned over on the dancefloor, ESG's post-punk took out the grunge and
polished the basics. Cut them open and "less is more" is written all the way through. 'Keep On Moving' was released over
ten years ago to much praise (Q said it was "even better" than 2002's much loved 'Step Off'). ESG had been sparring
partners for PiL and early hip hop and four years after the 'Off', they were onto something new rhythm as core,
reflective storylines about relationship management, sensuality and insanity gather around the bass fix but they're much
blurrier than the incessant beats. Inadvertently they unmask techno and glitch and leave out any kind of superfluous
fluff. It's hard and temple throbbing. Turn it up. And keep moving.
Price
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Format
LP · 1 disc
Release
30-05-2025
Label
Item-nr
801103
EAN
0809236002952
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
PURELY PHYSICAL
2
KEEP ON MOVING
3
INSANE (TAMBOURINE MIX)
4
THE ROAD
5
I'D DO IT FOR YOU
6
EVERYTHING GOES
7
EX
8
INSANE (BASS MIX)
9
GIMME A BLAST