Taking a naughty tens approach to 1980s sub pop featuring a cameo of live drums, sound snippets and dangerously tempting funk styling, meet Wuh Oh, the project of Glasgow based Peter Ferguson, encompassing everything eccentric and nauseatingly catchy from yesteryear, yet somehow finding the right balance to make these five tunes stand out more than they have any right to.
EP highlight ‘Trippin’ teases with a sample taken from famous funk drummer Bernard Purdie, tapping his vocals over a resoundingly mesmerising arpeggio bleep.
There is a real vibrant diligence of sunny colloquial beauty dripping over Wu Oh’s music, a successful formula that is repeated in the equally chaotic and tantalisingly delightful ‘Saxy Beast’, this time the live drums melt into the nucleus of the track, while a semblance of choppy mixes and sax blasts dance around the semblance of the harmonies.
Arguably the biggest delicacy of this debut EP is the free sounding, modernistic contemporary vibes that gloss over the end product, protecting like a varnished seal of emulsion allowing each track to stand out as a potential first single.
2015 should be an interesting one for Peter Ferguson and his fresh exciting brand of saxy banter, if these sounds can be harnessed and replicated well into a live environment, Wuh Oh could very well be ones to watch over the next couple of years.
Words: Chris Kelman
