Clay Class DFA***

Acts who divide opinion as vitriolically as Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn are to be saluted. Back in 2007, the Portsmouth duo's debut album of angular anti-pop was largely (and usually viciously) dismissed by the reviewing masses as a bit of a charade, though anyone who favoured their peculiar brand of atonal funk found plenty to be enthusiastic about in the jerky grooves. For album No 2, Prinz and Horn have kept to the same tack with sparse, streamlined beats, rubbery basslines and clattering guitar, accompanied by monochromal, disjointed call-and-response lyrical yelps. There's precedent for their approach in the work of PiL, Wire and Gang of Four, but it's to the pair's credit that Clay Classdoesn't become an exercise in pastiche. Instead, by the time Shake the Jarcomes around, the listener may well find themselves gripped by the kitchen-sink dramas unfolding therein. prinzhorn-dance- school.com

Download tracks: Shake the Jar, Usurper