Cargo Records

Bruk / Home (edit)

Shortly to release their much-anticipated XL Recordings debut LP 'The World Is Gone', at which point the chattering classes will catch up with what the clued-in kids have known for the last 18 months or more, and the eclectic VP vibe will be officially installed as this season's gold-star must-hear sound as the publicity machine lumbers into action.

The tracks on this latest 7" will not be on that album. However, if you salivating at the prospect of another of their unnerving excursions into moody electro-folk, wipe your chin, as 'Bruk' is a stomping example of what they do equally expertly with a beat, a bassline and an over-excited MC. On the B-side, the new mix of 'Home' also adds some determined rhythmic pressure to the original harmonised vocal version. It's grime, Jim, but not as we know it