Ghetto Mullet make instrumental Hip Hop with some squelchy acid lines thrown in. Their debut EP features slow to midtempo jams with a cinematic touch. It’s the keys that add the flavour.

Essex duo Ghetto Mullet pitch somewhere between the Trip Hop of Massive Attack and the pure Hip Hop instrumentals of RJD2. Then they add some wonky keyboard lines that bring a touch of Acid House to the party. ‘Sunday Morning Hangover’ is the antidote to slick US Hip Hop productions. It’s distorted, it’s trashy and it’s fun.

Imagine the Beastie Boys at their anarchic prime trying to make a House record. Then strip all the equipment away and leave a plastic toy organ, that’s ‘Feel It’. A track dominated by a wonky organ and a nagging vocal sample.

‘Nervous Acid’ opens with a cool piano intro. It’s a dark, cinematic track laced with a light, shimmering piano riff that’s repeated throughout the song.

GM can get even more moody. Check ‘Rampant Thought’, all slow, crackly atmospherics in a RJD2 meets drum and bass fashion.

‘Arriving In Obscurity’, on the other hand, is the most straightforward ‘Hip Hop’ track on the EP. Old school drum break, scratching and funky rhythm guitar - Clean and simple.

One of the highlights for me is when GM fabricate their own telephone hold message on ‘Eternal Hold’. We’ve all been there, you ring a customer service number to sort something out and you end up on hold… forever and ever.

Somebody had to come up with a song about it, so here you are and remember: ‘Your Call Is Important To Us.’ The hilarious rhymes are backed by chilled beats and brittle, catchy distorted keys. If you want a proper listen, visit GM’s MySpace page.

As for the name, it’s obviously a reference to a very dodgy haircut. On a different level, it’s a slightly more sinister slang term. I’ll leave that to the Urban Dictionary (btw, you’ve been warned).

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You can listen to ‘Sunday Morning Hangover’ here and download the album from iTunes UK.