Crooked Man

1. Coming Up For Air
2. This Machine Kills Me
3. The Girl With Better Clothes
4. Scum (Always Rises To The Top)
5. Preset
6. Fools And Fanatics
7. Try Me
8. I'll Be Loving You
9. Happiness

Richard Barratt - aka Parrot, formerly of Warp Records' Bleep techno pioneers Sweet Exorcist - will release his debut LP as Crooked Man on DFA Records in September. The project began in 2012 with four self-released 12"s on the project's own eponymous label, before an appearance on Option's Optimo Trax imprint in 2014. Raised a farm boy, his life changed when he first heard the industrial funk and futurist electronic pop of local bands Cabaret Voltaire and the Human League. Bored of having no decent parties to go to, he became DJ Parrot and began promoting the soon to be legendary Jive Turkey events in 1985. Alongside his DJ partner Winston Hazel, he united Sheffield’s disparate dancers by joining the dots between Northern Soul, disco, hip‐hop, electro and the emerging underground dance sounds of Chicago, Detroit and New York.When not working his sheepdogs, he’s quietly produced for Roisin Murphy, Add N To (X), Richard Hawley and Toddla T, amongst others. His decision, some years back, to revisit his love of raw, bass‐heavy house music merely marks another twist in the winding path of the Crooked Man.