Matador Revisionist History celebrates the 25th anniversary of Solexs Low Kick and Hard Bop. The album returns to us newly expanded with long-lost cut Mr. Crockpot.
First released in 2001, this was the third album by Amsterdam-based songwriter and one-time record shop owner, Elisabeth Esselink. Here, her sampler-driven found-sound retro-futurist style came into full stride with hooks sourced from dusty vinyl, TV, radio, and street noise.
A generation later, Low Kick remains an ebullient work of retro-futurist pop layered breaks splitting turf with bluesy riffs, girl group grooves, and surrealist swagger. Way back then, The Wire called it A dizzying array of elements and exuberance, and we dare you to argue otherwise.
Solexs Elisabeth Esselink takes you into her Dada-esqe, cut, paste, and fold sonic dance party, writes Matador founder Chris Lombardi. She reconstructs a million shards of sounds and styles into a kaleidoscopic musical masterpiece.
As the compact disc was the dominant physical format of that era, Matador never got around to releasing Low Kick on wax. This is a situation we have chosen to remedy as the record strides toward its third decade, with a first-time vinyl pressing arriving on September 11th.