Artist: Füxa
Release:Dirty D
Released:  2013
Label:   Rocket Girl
Catalog#:   RGIRL97
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
Country: USA
Style:  folk rock electronic psychedelic

01. The Blue Barracuda (03:46)
02. Reverse (02:17)
03. Berzap (03:45)
04. Inside (02:57)
05. Shout Out Loud (02:42)
06. Sun Is Shining (06:22)
07. Dirty D (06:22)
08. Forward (02:21)
09. Razzamatazz (02:52)
10. Whisper (04:12)
11. Unknown (04:12)
12. Stand By Me (04:14)

Füxa is a wide congregation featuring a revolving cast of members, including Ann Shelton, BJ Cole, and Judy Dyble of Fairport Convention. They have made, with Dirty D, a lush electronica-pop album full of ambient beauty, head-soaking production and some great tunes. The D in the title presumably standing for delights. Opener The Blue Barracuda drifts like Vangelis or a less fuzz-drenched Fennesz, BJ Cole plays bottle-neck slide-guitar over an encroaching drone. This is followed by the lush synth-swept verdant uplands of Reverse, in which a whispering backwards tape hiss blows through like a soft wind, Cole lending lap-steel guitar, its gentle screams recalling Berlin-era Bowie. Inside has a swaying weightless lilt to it; gusts of space-hum compete with clipped vocal samples. Shout Out Loud has a clicking metronomic drum-machine beat, this underpins bass synths and chiming percussion. Sun is Shining is a highlight, Ann Shelton unleashes a filthy fuzz-packed synth riff, full of whistling knob-twisting electro abuse, heated circuitry and stressed amps, the song is propulsive, robotic in the best sense, like prime Add N to (X), the music is as scorched and irradiated as its lyrics. The title track has a stops-out church organ melody, doomy and delicate, a skittering beat beneath. Razzmatazz is glitch-filled machine-clank, a clattering industro-beat is softened by deep pillows of synth. Dirty D closes with a great cover of Stand By Me, Cole bends chords over respiring electronics and pulses of bass, the lugubrious vocals recall Yo La Tengo. This song and the album as a whole fills the area left by The Flaming Lips post The Soft Bulletin, an album of inventive computer-soul.