RELEASE DATE: October 3rd 2025

FORMAT: Digital Only, Bandcamp & Streamers

LABEL: Big Strings Attached

TRACKLIST:

01. Acid Elaine (Smiley Mix)

02. Acid Elaine (Windowpane Mix)

03. Acid Elaine (Microdot Mix)

04. Acid Elaine (Orange Sunshine Mix)

05. Acid Elaine (Purple Ohm Mix)

06. Acid Elaine (Strawberry Mix)

The cartoons come courtesy of Chloe Batchelor.
 


Mastering is by Matthew Styles-Harris at Horizontal Studios, Barcelona.
 


“Take it away, Jack!”

releases October 3, 2025

01. Acid Elaine (Smiley Mix) – 125bpm

The curtain raiser treats us nice: rolling Minimoog bass, pinballing rimshots, strings. 707 meets 007. Then a trapdoor opens, plunging us helplessly into piano house heaven.

02. Acid Elaine (Windowpane Mix) – 125bpm

Tape echo sets the groove. A vocal sample, chopped to nonsense, queasily warped. Wow and flutter. Then the whole thing buckles, time slows, and you’re tripping hard about Lipps Inc. getting fingered behind the bus station.

03. Acid Elaine (Microdot Mix) – 125bpm

You’ve got to be fucking joking. An orgy of ridiculous samples, colossal Reese bass, Supertramp piano, fratty energy, Yello bumming each other on bennies, First Choice – the only choice. Sounds like it was produced by Cocaine Bear. Started in 1994, finished 30 years later.

04. Acid Elaine (Orange Sunshine Mix) – 125bpm

Remix by J.S.Zeiter. One for the cathedrals: a flawlessly produced prog-house juggernaut. Do not be tempted to disobey that piano. Sweet Mother of God.

05. Acid Elaine (Purple Ohm Mix) – 127bpm

Remix by Vyvyan (Bonar Bradberry). Horizontal at the afters: moody pads drift over a bubbling breakbeat, Reese bass ominous in the shadows. XTC upon XTC. A gated, warbling vocal heralds the dawn. Swoon to that filmic outro, mere mortals.

06. Acid Elaine (Strawberry Mix) – 120bpm

Remix by J.S.Zeiter. Nine minutes twenty of pure deepness. The walk of shame is complete. Little light shining. You dream of sleep.