London-based polymaths ALASKALASKA - a six-piece bunch of oddballs with roots in jazz and a natural ear for crafting understated grooves - cemented their knack for eclecticism with their debut EP last year; highlights like ‘Bitter Winter’ standing out as peculiar, addictive mangles. Returning with ‘Meateater’, the left-field musicians haven’t exactly reined things in. Surging from muscular, Warpaint-nodding bass lines right through to the kind of parping saxophone solos you’d equally find right at home in a Spandau Ballet song, their latest sees them taking aim at pigeon-holing of a different variety. “I was thinking about how frustrating it is to be categorised or stereotyped,” explained vocalist Lucinda John-Duarte in a press release. “We’re always in competition with each other or ourselves, trying to sell ourselves like meat and hiding parts of our being in the process.” - El Hunt