Description
As you may already know, Bad With Phones is a one-off. The self-proclaimed extra guy is extra in unique ways, and his debut album Crash holds a high-wire duality of instant recognisability and true individuality. Manny, as hes known to his friends, is a guitarist and frontman, a future don of weirdo pop, R&B, rap and post-punk in a pink and blue wig and sunglasses. Hes here to transmit songs that are epic and iconic, low key hypnagogic and soaked in bliss and damage like Tyler The Creator, Grace Jones or Basquiat if theyd grown up in 1990s Deptford listening to Sade and David Bowie. This album is packed with intimate anthems and comedown soothers for the day after a mangled night. The Crash back sleeve cover features a snap of his hired jeep, destroyed, on a volcanic landscape. The south east Londoner had been due a break after the stresses of releasing Marinade and had just signed to Brixton label Dont Sleep. He was maybe going to see family in Togo but instead flew to Lanzarote with a girlfriend. Once on the island, there was a massive car crash. Miraculously, they both emerged unharmed. Crash is both therapy and a kind of sci-fi, with each song an episode that captures and channels the dazed aftermath of intense life experience.
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