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Viva the wilful left turn! The element of surprise has been a cornerstone of great music forever: think Bob Dylan's electric revolution, or every second album by Neil Young, or the Clash's outrageous triple-disc sprawl, Sandinista! All and none of them were on Mat McHugh's mind when he took time out from his day job as founder-singer-songwriter of the Beautiful Girls to record this playful, profound and provocative solo debut, SEPERATISTA!
"A huge part of this is stepping away from expectation," he says. "There's nods to ska and dub and reggae, with kind of a hip-hop aesthetic, just picking up things I love and putting them together. I wanted to have fun with it, to make a record for music's sake. "What I've always done with the Beautiful Girls is to run as far as possible from what anyone thought we were. Trying my best to keep challenging myself and other people is incredibly important to me." Hence the surprising electricity of last year's ZIGGURATS album, a disc that challenged old TBG fans while captivating a whole bunch of new ones. The beautiful irony is that those old fans are likely to do backflips over the melodious syncopated acoustic grooves of SEPERATISTA!
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