LEST WE FORGET WHAT WE CAME HERE TO DO
★★★★
Theon Cross’s arrival made SOK “more full-frontal, more of a band,” says Hutchings. Crashing into the opening In Memory Of Samir Awad about two-thirds in, the tubist certainly seems to pull everything together. Meanwhile, the nine-minute Afrofuturism is the closest they’ve come, says Hutchings, to Barbadian ‘tuk’.