NiYi - I Love You All / Poached Eggs

Despite being labelled a ‘rapper’ in the accompanying press release, St Martin’s drop-out NiYi’s sound is more punk-pop on I Love You All. Responsible for London’s avant-garde and achingly hip Gauche Club, which The Sunday Times claimed was responsible for clubland’s neon craze of recent times, NiYi’s vocal brings to mind that of Bloc Party’s Kele. Coming in both longer and radio edit versions, Love You All blends surf-rock guitar and a dash of trance-style synths. Meanwhile, on Poached Eggs NiYi takes more of an MC approach as he regales us with his love of poached eggs, over discordant 80s arcade FX, eventually collapsing into a gabba-like frenzy. [Colin Chapman]