KuleeAngee - Love and Affection

The joint project of Edinburgh’s Duncan Grant and Glasgow native Keshav Kanabar, KuleeAngee - so the story goes - formed while the pair were queuing to enter Dalston Superstore. And, true to their origins on the queer institution’s East London dancefloor, their second EP ‘Love & Affection’ is a hard-to-resist homage to the various sounds and scenes of British club culture. Opener ‘You’re Fine, You’re High’ positively struts out of the speakers, its whistle-flecked funk punctuated by percussive breakdowns and arcs of soaring falsetto. ‘Pretty Love’, meanwhile, pulses with the same self-assured swagger as a Soulwax remix, that, over the course of three and a half minutes, unfurls to to take in the euphoric airiness of ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ or ‘The Universal’ - a Britpop callback that’s then let loose to its full, anthemic extent on the EP’s unashamedly life-affirming title track (which even comes complete with its own delightfully indulgent, Stone Roses-inspired outro track; because nobody likes it when the music cuts off and the lights flick on). An unpretentious, undeniable collection.