Ashok - Four Track EP

  by Sarah Maybank

published: 21 / 1 / 2007

Label: Filthy Lucre Records
Format: CDS

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New EP from eclectic and socially conscious British group Ashok, who on this debut offering incorporate elements of punk, folk and country

Spaghetti Junction. The Balkans conflict. Algebra: all waaaay less complicated than what’s happening on Planet Ashok. One listen to this four-song collection confirms it. 'Lean From The Middle' is a plea for us all to fight extremism that swerves Noisettes-style between funky dance and finger clicking jazz. So far so worthy. But that’s followed by 'Under the Thumb' a cowbell-driven ode to bad-ass boyfriends that’d have Peter Couch in a robot-dancing frenzy until the next World Cup, and 'Happy Slapper', basically a Hayseed Dixie-style hoe-down promoting extreme violence towards any boyfriend who, presumably isn’t bad-ass. At least the World Of Leather remix of 'Lean From The Middle' does what you think it’d say on the tin – ie, scuffs up the original into something you’d dance to for, well, hours. Really, Ashok should be sent to bed with no tea for inflicting such mischief on listeners, but you know they’d just shinny down the drainpipe and run off cackling into the night. Incorrigible.

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