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TURTLE FRITTER: The MC Roostar EP

Turtle Fritter are Browns Bay collaborators Carey Walton and Allan Moran. Both are multi-instrumentalists with musical roots in the UK, and they willingly take a backseat on their debut release to guest vocalist MC Roostar (N. Anderson) who has a languid London delivery not entirely unlike Roots Manuva. A scattershot approach to trackbuilding sees a plethora of rhythmic effects, guitar lines and melodies thrown in the mix. To these ears, the tune to Hellos & Goodbyes skirts a little too closely to the Chemical Brothers' Let Forever Be. A Barry Crump narrator enlivens Alien Bass with some laconic storytelling. Roostar’s brave autobiographical content elevates Not 2 Day, his life story rendered in three and a half minutes, the mix of pathos and candidacy bringing to mind The Streets’ Mike Skinner. The EP’s kitchen-sink production makes for a somewhat crowded stereo image and the different parts rub up against each other rather than merge like a zip. Rather piebald and unwieldy, this EP is still engaging, toe-tapping and charismatic. Turtle Fritter may have shot themselves in the flipper by making Roostar the focus of their output, his potential is evident.

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