Do you like fun? If not, stop doing what you’re doing ie. reading this. Take a deep breath. Think about this decision long and hard. If after all this, fun still isn’t your cup of tea, then take solace in the fact that Morrissey has a new album out. Go now. Leave. Listen. Peace be with you.
O.K, now that the spoil sports have left us, I shall continue. The Filthy Dukes are, in essence, fun. Not the kind of fun that you would associate with inflicting defeat upon your Grandma in an intense game of Scrabble for the first time in your life; rather I’m talking about the kind of fun that you imagine would happen if you were to dance up a storm in some hipster club in, let’s say, Stockholm, whilst blissfully surrounded by incredibly attractive people doing much the same. This, in short, is what the Filthy Dukes are all about.
Before they became this though, they started out as two, and later three, DJs that remixed the likes of The Rakes and The Maccabees. Now they have decided to create their own music, and now they’re the one’s getting remixed. They have released their debut album this month, and in their first single ‘This Rhythm’, there is ample evidence that we could be witnessing the start of a very good year for the Filthy Dukes (just pity about the name really).
Scoring guest vocals from Late of the Pier’s Samuel Dust, ‘This Rhythm’ is an appropriately named, swirling dancefloor classic (in the making) that sees Dust perform some audacious Prince like-vocals that he just about pulls off…somehow. If you’re looking for existential meaning in this confused world, then this probably won’t help, but if – like I have probably already made quite clear – are after a good time, then you’ve come to the right place. Suffice to say, it’s a very cool song.
9/10
Ben Cohen
