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Engineering a glorious pan-global collision of traditional and contemporary sounds, this Cambridge-based collective are positively shouting out for wider exposure. A concoction of Irish, Balkan and Indian fiddle tunes, splendidly guttural rap/ragga vocals and pounding percussion might sound like a recipe for musical chaos, but these guys stir it with panache, making sense of the unlikeliest musical juxtapositions. Though the in-yer-face pitch of most tracks gets a little too unvarying towards the end, the album's energy, musicianship and freewheeling spirit pack real punch. And anyone who samples an Ann Widdecombe speech during a pro-hash polemic - as in the wonderfully splenetic Blind Eye - definitely has my vote.

Sue Wilson

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