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Live Review: LA Priest 'Lady's In Trouble With The Law'

18 June 2015 | 1:29 pm | Tom Hutchins

Just when you thought what to expect from LA PRIEST's debut album, Sam Dust goes and throws a curveball right into your face.

Just when you thought what to expect from LA PRIEST's debut album, Sam Dust goes and throws a curveball right into your face with 'Lady's In Trouble With The Law'.

The previous cuts from Inji have been incredibly eclectic, but they've maintained an upbeat, dance orientation. Things are drastically different on 'Lady's In Trouble...'. We were warned about something like this coming along, as every press release has stated "Inji is a record that has its own logic and exists in its own time zone."

The track opens with an incredibly silky guitar line, matched by an ethereal array of vocal layers. It's quite a feat to create a sound that feels like it's moving, but LA Priest does it from the first few bars. The instrumentation is all covered in a warm distortion, creating a truly sultry vibe. The beat is an odd match of clicks and clacks, yet it's purely used as a base - and it becomes obvious that things are going to stay melancholic throughout.

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As Dust's vocals drift along, you can feel the expansive nature of the track, every element is slowed down and allowed space. Something that isn't exactly on offer in LA Priest's previous frantic cuts. This is his most true to pop form, yet it refuses to sound like a pop song. It's an intoxicating cut, as Dust rolls out line after line of lovelorn poetry, at times breaking into raspy yelps - you're swept into his world.

If the world of Inji can back up a dance classic with a love driven pop ballad, then it's the kind of world we all need.

We'd also like to use this article to pay our respects to Sam and the rest of the Late Of The Pier family for the shock passing of LOTP drummer Ross Dawson. May Ross be kept alive forever through his amazing contributions to music.

Inji is out June 26 via Domino Recordings/EMI

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