ALBUM REVIEW

BALEARIC MIKE & KELVIN ANDREWS

‘Down to The Sea & Back’ (Wonk Music)

As the Ibiza season bears down faster than a pack of journalists at a free bar, and the sun fi nally gets his New Era on, it’s time to expose the ghostly apparitions that are your vitamin D starved legs, fi nd a patch of grass and take a huge toke on some heavy Balearic beats. Compiled by Balearic Mike and Kelvin Andrews, whose patchwork past exploits include being part of Candy Flip, Sure is Pure, Sound 5 and Soul Mekanik, as well as helping produce Robbie Williams last two albums, ‘Back Down To The Sea & Back’ packs exactly the kind of obscure, pop

delights you need in your holiday beach bag. Whether it’s Fern Kinney’s kitch electronic groove as on ‘Baby, Let Me Kiss You’, out and out funk like Sweet’s aptly-named ‘Funk It Up’, the egocentric disco dirt of Bee Gee’s produced Osmonds’ track ‘I, I, I’, or Al Usher’s charmingly odd 80s inspired ‘Lullaby For Robert’, every track shimmers in sweat- beaded summer joy while also providing the requisite amount of crate-digging cool for perfect climactic conditions. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10