In the year or two since I was first introduced to LoAF recordings, by way of one of their label samplers I happened to get passed, I've developed a real respect for what they do. For LoAF are what indie labels are - or should be, in an ideal world - all about, and that's all about the music, irrespective of commercial potential.
This is perhaps as well, because bands like Gable are never going to shift truckloads of units. Yet the world is a better place for having bands like Gable in it. 'EP2' is wonderfully and brilliantly and completely crackers.
From the speeded-up electro of 'Puree Hip-Hop' to the lamecore rap that would give Goldie Lookin' Chain a run for their money on 'Old Policeman,' EP2 is unstinting in its experimentalism, or its humourousness. 'I'm OK' catalogues sharp instruments that can be used to cause (self)harm over a soothing string arrangement augmented with the barking of dogs.
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The dogs clearly aren't the only things that are barking, and 'EP2' is probably the second most off-the-wall thing I've heard all year (the first being Mike Patton's 'Adult Themes for Voice').
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