A member of Most Wanted, a collective born from the Leeds electronic scene, Pea Green Boat infuses deep house and Warp influences in their music in order to offer some electronic peregrinations in weightlessness.
While the influence of Orbital and Underworld is obvious and the duo doesn't try to hide it, Mits Kayaba and Rory Natkiel know how to successfully build a slightly strange ambiance in which the distinctive and haunting melodies float. Layers of keyboards, discreet bleeps and distorted leitmotivs blend together, favoring an atmosphere and progressive construction rather than a direct and booming rhythmic approach.
"Glitch", "Wax Track", "Cake", "Everybody's Going" and "Danced Yet" do not depart from this rule, bringing the listener very chill and pleasant mid-tempo ballads, for want of great originality. A little on the fringe of the remainder of the album with its resolutely dub orientation, "Seesaw" is the pièce de résistance, a venomous single where Neneh Cherry's sample of "Buffalo Stance" intertwines with a smooth bass to irremediably intoxicate into the infinity of its loops.
Two Way Traffic is a promising debut and the success of "Seesaw" has opened the way, making it possible for the group to cultivate its originality and to definitively distinguish themselves from the influence of their elders.
Pea Green Boat Two Way Traffic
