Filo Loves The Acid

2023 REPRESS

On Filo Loves The Acid Dozzy presents his first solo album since The Loud Silence [Further Records, 2015]. But, where that album and his collaborations with Anna Caragnano, Bee Mask and Neel have tended to his experimental side, this is the first time that Dozzy has focussed on dance music for a long player, finally exploring the functions of his numerable 12s in a broader, durational format, and with predictably immersive results..

Its all supremely strong and slick gear, opening out with the panoramic pads and plangent tweaks of Filo – named after his best bud, whom the album is dedicated to – before getting crafty with the slipping kicks of his Vetta pounder and the overpronating drive of Duetto, to go hard for a late 90s skullhead style on Nine o Three.

With Back he brings a flavour of early 90s psycho-tribalist stompers, while Vetta Reprise ramps the energy level to breakneck, and TB Square settles its arse down to a more hypnotic swing jack, before Rep rips out with a proper, brain-drilling riff and martial tattoo of the type youd expect to hear in Tresor, cloaked in smoke and blinded by the strobes.