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Turning their subject matter from the backroom of seedy Brooklyn peepshows to flea markets full of old clothes, In Flagranti's "Worse For Wear" EP takes a chunk of vintage fetishism and mixes it with Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor's interest in old disco / new disco sounds. In addition to having the first In Flagranti album cover in years that you can show your mom without making her faint, it's also got remixes from Mixhell and a particularly good effort from London's fashion minded Punks Jump Up. They take the sewer grate hiss [...]

In Flagranti have their aesthetic down so well that hearing their music conjures up a visual image of a dirty malt liquor stained Brooklyn sidewalk outside the Meat Packing District in the early 80s. It feels like a homage to New York back when your parents were in nightclubs that had mirrors on the ceiling and DJs who talked to the crowd in between songs. Now, Sasa Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor are following up on 20062s "Wronger Than Anyone Else" and 20092s vintage porn-chic idolizing "Brash & Vulgar" with "Worse for Wear." "Flea [...]