The Drink

7/10

The Drink first surfaced at the end of 2016 as a free YouTube download, by which time the two members of guinness (now styled with asterisks, presumably for legal reasons) had called it a day after seven months together. As guinness, Edinburgh conceptual artists Allie ormston and someone billed as “Ω” (possibly Keith Farquhar of Edinburgh Leisure and The Male Nurse) campaigned in their idiosyncratic way for a kind of surreal social justice, rambling about readymades, Le Corbusier, suicide and Christmas over drummachine beats and angular riffs. As they descend into a cover of Coolio’s “gangsta’s Paradise” during “Practical Song”, it all sounds suspiciously competent.