Archbishop Beardmouth At The Chem Olympics is the latest EP by Telefis who are the latest collaborative project of Cathal Coughlan and Garret Jacknife Lee, An Irish duo who by this point should need no introduction has to how legendary both of them are.
The first version of Archbishop Beardmouth At the Chem Olympics is a dancefloor pop version, for ever so slightly out of it clubbers, to get down and chant Chem Olympics too, as the beat gets everyone dancing and hoping they have the right toxicology in there blood to be having the best time ever. The breakdown feels like you're having a bit of a comedown before suddenly the second rush comes in and everything looks spectacular again.
The second version of Archbishop Beardmouth (Thomas Leer Version) that opens with breathy vocals and disjointed computer noises, over what almost sounds like choral backing singers, making this much more of a chill out version. As the main vocals come in so does some rather jazzy techno making this almost totally different to the first version.
The ep continues with 3 re-mixes of tunes from the bands A-hon album the first of which is Picadors With Auntie Joan who is the first of Jacknife Lee's family and friends to voice tunes from the album, this is a sparse remix with Auntie Joan's spoken word vocals slowly becoming more treated and her reading of the lyrics are rather poetic as the tale of the Picadors unfolds and eventually a trumpet solo comes through the atmospheric backing.
Ballytransnational With Da And Esther has very deadpan vocals against the squelchy techno backing on this song about the transnational pinball or is it shoe company, or is he telling us he's never going back to Ballymena.
The Ep closes with There Goes Waterface With Mrs Hegarty who slowly and carefully reads the lyrics over a spare at times barely there synthpop backing that allows the listener to take in the lyrics and to figure out just how badly they needed Waterface to leave.
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