Review: Clive From Accounts - The Very Best of Clive From Accounts (Razor-N-Tape)

Anyone who has  worked in an office evironment knows a "Clive From Accounts"; the nerdy one, the one that has fun "executive" toys on his desk, an oversized mug and eats two Wheetabix for breakfast - one to avoid right?  Well, this Clive From Accounts also packs an anolog synth and a brand new album on Razor-N-Tape so definitely one to get to know better!  And I don't mean in an ACCA way either.

 

We last saw CFA on the remix of 'Soul Love' by Fred Everything (see review HERE) but there were rummers of an album was coming as he wasn't featured on Razor-N-Tape's last 'Family Affair' compilation (see review HERE).

Instead, we've got 'The Very Best of Clive From Accounts' as a ten track bumper album and it's more than excellent enough to pack up the day job and all that filing and get ready to boogie all day long.

The recent single, 'Save Me', a "303 acid-tinged gospel house anthem", if you didn't know already, this guy knows no genre limits ('Save Me' samples The Staple Jr Singers who are no relation to Pop or the Staple family and features real steel drums, analog synths is a 4x4 garage/breaks!).  Or the even more cosmopolitan, 'It Began' that's DJ Shadow doing some Batov tribute as "it began with the beat".

Still not convinced? 'Ambika' goes back to the club/glitchscene, 'Heavier' is old-skool Dub Club vs. Ragga Twins with Riko Dann as the badman blood clot that's followed by some hi-tempo 'E-Magik' house.  

Not exactly what you'd expect from that nerdy Clive from Accounts in the back office?  And then he tops it off with Japanese vocals (Maya Kuroki) and violin (Jessica Roch) on 'Konsumu Suru' that swings like Athur Russell origami on the dancefloor.  He seems to like this Jap-vibe as 'Did You See' takes it and runs with some 1930s string sweeps that whilst 'Economy Of Motion' and Kipp Stone's rap on 'All That Matters' reminds me of Daedulus at his West Coast/Ninja Tune warped jazzy hip-hop best.

So you get this idea, the influences are many but the results are more than tidy as the album bubbles up to its closing track, as rampant d'n'b based 'Spectrum'.  We're told in the title that this is 'The Very Best of Clive From Accounts' but I expect there's even more 'very best' to come in the future - lets love and dance to this first though!

P.S. The 12" vinyl is a eight track option with the inclusion of a 'bonus track' surprise! 

P.P.S. Don't forget to see our in depth interview with Clive From Accounts HERE!

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Artist:  Clive From Accounts 

Title: Razor-N-Tape,

Release date: 28th February, 2025

Label : Razor-N-Tape

Catalog Number : TBC

Format: 12" vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp LINK

Tracklist:
A1 It Began
A2 Save Me
A3 Ambika
A4 All That Matters ft. Kipp Stone
B1 Heavier ft. Riko Dan
B2 Konsumu Suru ft. Maya Kuroki & Jessica Roch
B3 Spectrum
B4 ?????