Felicita

Although Felicita sits neatly under the umbrella of PC Music – all prepubescent posturing and Fisher Price production – it’s clear the South London producer is coming at pop from a different place. The way the rubbery beats stretch out, summersault and collapse in on themselves in his Frenemies EP (which samples make-up tutorials and comes as a free download if you buy a limited edition canary yellow drawstring bag, obviously), shares more likeness with Arca, while Bring It mirrors the viscerally pummeling sheen of Vessel’s Punish, Honey. Combine that with the usual glitter bombs of squiggly noises and a conceptually-minded process – Felicita wanted to create sounds that were “as intensely noxious” as the smell of acrylic nail shops – its attitude-soaked elasticity and nausea-inducing extremity is, as usual, as intensely addictive as the culture of excess it seeks to invert.