'Seagull So Good' EP by Sofa So Good

If you enjoyed the Sofa So Good debut single "Psychic  Flashes" (which we reviewed in February 2025 and you can also find on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Fifteen' and delighted in how  Lani Kayah & Scrumblebear transformed the Septic and the Tanks song "Continental Breakfast"  (their remix is on the ‘Extended Playtime' EP), then you'll be pleased that their own debut EP called ‘Seagull So Good' is now available.

Featuring "Psychic Flashes", you'll also find two new songs on there: "Moira's Wet Fish" and "Paws to the Floor".

The former, a pleasing drum & bass orientated paean  to the Spon End landmark, however takes off from that starting point in what is now becoming a Sofa So Good trademark: a trajectory of such originality & radicalism that while it has an anchor back in the inspiration, the samples liberally sprinkled throughout the bubbling original electrobeat track don't seem very likely to have been field recordings from the actual premises or indeed any other commercial fishmonger. Or if they were, one can't imagine the business surviving long given that you'd imagine the more successful would tend towards the prosaic retail of seafood rather than discussing the issue of communicating with fish with customers or the ethics of selling dead ones. Try that in Spon Street & you'd freak a few people out I think.

The second song displays less paranoia (as well as 100% fewer lyrics) and to my ears pays homage to the first era of electronic pop music. If the pair for their next project manage to invent a time machine (and why not?) they could do worse than to take this one back to say 1981 and make good profit auctioning it off to aspirant chart seeking bands as a backing track to set them on their way.

The key I think is that they describe the EP process as "lots of fun to make": they clearly make their music for the love of it & in addition to being good at what they do, the pleasure is part of what they communicate. There is much humour in "Psychic  Flashes" and "Moira's Wet Fish" which you'd have to be pretty insensitive to miss. While danceability & the lower end of the sound spectrum are obvious important parts of their DNA, I think emphasising this aspect is very crucial to why I like it: much electronic music has taken itself extremely seriously over the years: from time to time arguably too much so, and if Sofa So Good are providing a corrective, more power to them.