Jez Kerr: Numb Mouth Eat Waste – review

(Higuera)Jeremy – now Jez – Kerr's A Certain Ratio were one of the first acts signed to Factory Records, and inspired LCD Soundsystem with their pioneering punk-funk. His solo debut has plenty of those trademark nimble, funky basslines but mostly revisits sounds that first inspired him – Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, oblique jazz – and the pre-funk, much bleaker ACR. Although tracks range from the punkily uplifting Play Something Fast to the beautifully wistful Reason I Feel Like an Alien, the p...

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