First rule of encountering GERLING: expect the unexpected.
I mean, how often do people erroneously inform you that something will "surprise" you or "it won't be what you expected" etc? Usually, the end result is far more predictable. The difference with Australia's GERLING is that they really WILL surprise you. Seriously.
Your reviewer must admit here that he did a double take on first spinning "Dust Me Selecta". The band's recent single "The Deer In You" had a (very pleasant) "what the fuck?" quality about its' dance-y, psych-rock drone, but "Dust Me Selecta" - complete with myriad dance mixes and tributary deltas of bleeps and bloops and slinky radio edits - is another Bar-B full of shrimps altogether.
Recorded in Sydney with producer Magoo and quaffing from a snatch of THE BROTHERS' JOHNSON'S "Stomp", "Dust Me Selecta" really is a hi-energy deep house classic of sorts, perfectly primed to rip up dance tents the length and breadth of the country. Wow! I really…didn't expect that.
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There again, bearing in mind that their forthcoming album features contributions from collaborators as diverse as KYLIE, SOLEX and CORNELIUS, it does make a kind of perverse sense.
Suddenly, the fact that GERLING started out by attempting to cover W*A*S*P songs really doesn't seem so bizarre.
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