I think one of my very first vinyl records was Paranoid London (their actual first album). As is often written in comments under YouTube videos, people can't forget their first encounter with PL. I feel the same way. PL emerge from the very roots of 80s acid house, and the purity of production without nonsense is often what you need amid all the chaos around.

Now comes a new album. The raw sound of classic Rolands with omnipresent distortion on top remains a certainty of the original genre. However, the sound has expanded in width and volume thanks to the new studio. Classic linear arrangements are enriched by guests and friends - vocalists like Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream, Mutado Pintado, or the sensual Josh Caffé, who often performs live with PL as well. Listening to it, I am seized by the excitement of punk rock's dirty streets of a British metropolis, manifest sexuality, and direct references, just like the political undertone. We can only imagine what the track name "GRNDR" at 140 bpm evokes.

As PL themselves declare about the new album: "stripping acid house back down to its basics, rescuing the sound from smiley faces, rave, and sugary excess while paying respects to its gay, black, American roots." The album's title is also amusing. According to the group, everyone they've ever encountered falls into one of these three categories.

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