When
Andrew Weatherall released
The Bullet Catcher's Apprentice, the first release credited to the producer/DJ by name, he had been active for nearly 20 years. Despite the decision to not conjure his umpteenth alias, this EP isn't necessarily more personal than usual. The first three tracks fall somewhere between
Two Lone Swordsmen's brutish, post-punk-driven
From the Double Gone Chapel and the material that immediately preceded it. In "Feathers" and "You Can't Do Disco Without a Strat," the decrease in the stroppy, bleary-eyed stagger of
Double Gone is replaced with mobility and even some playfulness. "La Sirena," amusingly, resembles an electro-punk remix of
Southern Culture on the Skids' "Camel Walk" (even if the intent was to approximate something closer to
the Cramps).
Repeat/Repeat's "You Can't Do Disco" remix, the last track, is minimal house noir worthy of
Trentemøller or
Wighnomy Brothers.