KEEPSAKES Vinilo y CD

Review: Don't be fooled by the title Hard Pop, Kaos aren't giving the game away and ceding to a specific mode of hard dance on this VA release. It opens up with Not Yet's 'Birmingblast', which sounds exactly how you would expect a nosebleed techno track to sound if it's making a nod to Brum. Sue Lewig does tease towards the pop impetus with some snatched vocals in the equally driving 'Silver' and Keepsakes' 'The Seen Shall Swim Upstream' gets locked into a powerful, albeit slightly unsettling groove. 'You Should Go Out Of My Space' rounds the EP off in a cheeky manner with the deadpan vocal from Not A Headliner.