Tim Xavier and Tony Rohr’s third release (and second for Brooklyn-based Clink Music) as the Afternoon Coffee Boys is a stellar three-track exercise in American minimalism. Stripped-down and percussion-based, the Boys add some squonky, short-decay riffs and disjointed robotic voices to the title version, as well as some clutch breakdowns. It pops with techno hardware but bounces to a housey funk rhythm and therefore should mix well with just about everything, though it sounds great all by itself. On the flip, “Splice and Dice Brew” runs the whole work through a fuzzy filter, and “Eno’s Brew” dials back on the beats and plays up the spookified noises. The Boys haven’t released a dud yet (their EP on Cocoon earlier this year was also a corker), and you have to wonder when the world is going to stand up and take notice.

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[Todd Hutlock]