There's a Latino jazz thang going on in the latest offering from former Spiritualized bassist and Lupine Howl frontman Sean Cook that belongs in a dark, smoky, South American bandit bar where there's too much warm brandy flowing and you're lying back on a huge cushion watching a man in a matador jacket twirl around with a rose between his teeth. It sounds as if it should be the background music in a lavish movie starring Antonio Banderas.
The Flies are Cook's new project, filling the gaps while Lupine Howl decide what to do without a record contract, but this is a very different direction, with more than a passing nod to good old Bristolian chill-out and a remix that introduces psychedelic loops and swirls to lose you in its rich folds.
At times it sounds overproduced and a little too slick but those moments are short-lived and before you notice it you're floating in space again on an opium-soaked bass line you don't ever want to stop.
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