The Education - Vultures/Secret Admirer/Weirdo

Surely unique in the history of music, The Education's new, treble a-side single, Vultures/Secret Admirer/Weirdo, is an idea almost as bizarre as the content itself. Played with a blatant disregard for genre and vogue, it brutally and remorselessly inflicts at least five conflictory sounds on unsuspecting ears. Dis-consonant from the off, it passes through the blistering drum-and-bass-punk of opener, 'Vultures', to the breakbeat rock-trance of 'Secret Admirer', to the future-pop of closer, 'Weirdo', without ever letting go. Played with a deep tremor of threat, pure and simply, this is the future of music, abstracted in ten minutes of antagonistic impetuosity. Prepare to be educated. [Neil Ferguson]