A Certain Ratio’s greatest strength has always been their unpredictability. They’ve always moved with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It’s an ethos that’s open-minded over all else, and that’s seen them take everything from experimental electronica to vintage funk, filtered through their own Mancunian lens.And their latest studio album 1982 is no different in its unpredictable multidimensional nature. It shoots off in every direction, whether via searing Afrobeat, mind- melting jazz breakdowns or moody electronic experiments all with pop hooks and irresistible dance rhythms.It might be called 1982, but it’s no nostalgia trip, fearlessly facing up to the future and running at it with full speed.The album follows ACR Loco and EP:ACR in what is turning out to be the band’s most creative period, unmistakably ACR and unmistakably like nothing else.
Tracklisting.
Side 1.
1.Samo
2.Waiting on a Train (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Chunky)
3.1982
4.A Trip in Hulme
5.Tombo in M3
Side 2.
1.Constant Curve (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi & Emperor Machine)
2.Afro Dizzy (feat. Ellen Beth Abdi)
3.Holy Smoke
4.Tier 3
5.Ballad of ACR
| Artist | A Certain Ratio |
| Media | LP |
| Katalog nummer | Mute289 |
| Land | UK & Europe |
| Label | Mute Records |
| Udgivelsesår | 2023 |
| Grading | New/Still Factory Sealed |
| Genre | Rock |
| Sub Genre 1 | Indie Rock |
| Condition | New |