This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026
Facta: Gulp (Wisdom Teeth)
We continue with my list of favourite 2025 electronic music albums with another Top 20 Banger. I’m posting this a little later in the morning because I went to a New Years’ party and drank 8% beer while wearing a stupid rainbow wig, both of which have induced a hangover.
Facta does not do long albums. His first, Blush, was barely
over half-an-hour in length. This new one is five minutes shorter than that. It’s
part of the charm, I guess, like popping into Narnia to pester a magical flute-tooting
man-goat then being back home in time for afternoon tea.
Blush was much more organic than this. My Electronic Sound review
at the time waffled on about “woodland meanders”. Gulp drags us out of the countryside
and onto the dancefloor. Blush was the daylight; Gulp is proper nightlife stuff.
Lead single BDB is in-your-face: a bouncy ball of a beat
pushes along a snappy vocal sass while his synths chitter and bloop in the background. Elsewhere, there’s earworm UK garage and breezy
electronics, all awash with radiant chords to add that Facta humanity.
He made this music on the move, hence the brevity suggested
by the album’s title. He made it “dotting between festivals, European club
shows and on tour in Japan.” Yeah, I see your humble-brag, matey. The cursory
approach has clearly worked, and it’s pretty much the same method I apply to
these blog posts. Nicely done. A gulp not a gobble, but just as tasty.
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