Ipswich spitter Del offers a business card tagged with an ability to transform himself with the skills of your everyday comic book hero: direct enough to reap overground overtures, sensible enough to show the underground some love, and with a chorus that’ll make front rows putty in his hands. Admittedly the superpowers are a little all over the place – from cheetahs to trees via past wrestlers and quarter-pounders, the switches are as random as Sam Beckett’s Quantum Leaps. Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard slips into the sidekick role on the dials, indulging in an introductory burst of jangling mop top pop, before Shapeshift relents into a thickset, electro-fried boom-bap battery to jump around to until the floorboards start warping. Dels’ child-like persuasions - school bullying, Beano reading, his mum telling him to take a bath and the like - just need the action figure tie-in to complete the look. Good fun, with sound handling of novelty.
Complimentary remixes are kicked off by Kwes, a rustically rough and ready drum kicker, Dels essentially going one-on-one with a sticksman sprinkling simmering psychedelic vapours below the hook. Eli-T locks the mighty morpher into a very Roots Manuva wobble, distilling down Goddard’s electro scythes for a dub two-parter that’s half new skool skank, half shaman posting elevated moments of calm. Ghostapes hack away until all that’s left is a chopped-up Dels keeping the permanence of arms waved from left to right, a robo-B-more clap building momentum as signals and connections blink, gurgle and guzzle into a mechanical tussle where machines bid for supremacy by doing the best robot.