Phenomenal Handclap Band - Burning Bridges EP

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: RNTR054
Release Date: 03 Mar 2023
Genre: Deep House, Nu Disco

A1 Burning Bridges (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
A2 Burning Bridges
B1 It Was The Summer (Each Other Remix)
B2 It Was The Summer

NYC leftfield disco darlings Phenomenal Handclap Band made their first appearance on RNT by way of a collab with JKriv in 2022, and now they return for an offering all their own, the Burning Bridges EP.

The title track juxtaposes riffy guitar driven funk with plaintive vocals that smack of 1970s Heart in the best way, and Prins Thomas turns the tempo knob up a few clicks and launches into an extended interstellar excursion with his remix.

On the B side the cinematic slow burner ‘It Was The Summer’ begins sparse and hazy and builds to driving peak of backbeat rhythm and an insistent vocal soliloquy. Each Other (Justin Strauss & Max Pask) then take the tune straight the rave with arpeggiated and acidic synths, recasting the haunting vocals as a modern New Wave anthem.