Dicks

The final Fila Brazillia album was a collection of 23 mostly brief (sixteen of the tracks are under three minutes) instrumental tracks, covering the many bases from their previous nine albums, including chopped-up synth-funk, spacey jazz-electro, and warm, inviting and inventive down-tempo electronica. The shorter tune length lends a sketch-like feel to some of the tunes but with no drop in quality; instead they sound like Fila Brazillia, distilled, concentrated. And 23 tracks allow for a huge range of rhythmic, melodic, and stylistic variation: “708-7606-19” has the feel of a Speak & Spell machine programmed by Mr Scruff, “…And Flesh” is like glam rock played by Parliament, and “The Cubist News” could be the theme tune to the Hip Hop Evening News. A fittingly impressive final Fila album.