Vinyl LP pressing housed in whacked fontmanship sleeve. Climate Change marks Minneapolis/Brooklyn block party brain-scrambler trio Beat Detectives' debut on the vinyl format after a splatter-paint trail of tapes. Their time is now. The album's 14 cuts coast and crunk within a Quaalude quadrangle of blasted dub (Roaring Lion), cro-magnon acid (Reward Card, Three Pointer), hijacked funk (Dead Girl At A Party, Sands Of Slime), and smeared low rider bass grease (Magic Island Ripper, When You Wake Up), spliced with speaker-blown samples and singer Oakley Tapola's dazed, glazed vocals. Rhythm constructionists Aaron Anderson and Chris Hontos channel a fried, psychedelic Friday vibe, in service to a higher cause: Push it towards something else. Something temporary, something ripping, something more than the sum of its parts - Climate Change congeals Beat Detectives' mixtape-you'd-find-in-the-trunk mission statement into a positive journey of swap meet magic and melted body music. Change or be changed.
