DOWNLOAD: Patten - Version (Test Mix) + Grey Gold (Test Mix)
Posted at the band's MySpace page last week, Patten's new tracks are pure, post-generic finery. Most propulsive is the early mix of "Version", a sullen-eyed surge through the disco-not-disco of Liquid Liquid, the ferrous post-punk of This Heat and the type of overloaded, industrial drum-machinery you'd expect to find clattering and staggering from behind the bouncers guarding the best clubs in east London (Reeperbahn, stand up). "Grey Gold" is calmer, recalling the probing, ambient gestures of fellow Londoner Arch M, but both tracks thrill in their progression from last album There Were Horizons (available here), a record whose artwork seemed shot from a spyplane to map with cartographical rigour the alien terrain the trio's music now stalks. Get in early on this - both have been tagged as 'Test Mixes', and RCRD LBL eagerly awaits GLAQJO XAACSSO, Patten's next planned release.
Sounds Like: Liquid Liquid, This Heat, Arch M
