Trouble
Despite the Oxford-based house producer's goofy moniker and preferred costuming (feathered wings, feathered headdresses, stegosaurus spines, etc.), Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs' pop-infused debut isn't incredibly showy.
He won our attention with spectacle, but TEED also creates inimitable fusions of exhilaration, anxiety, pounding electronics and delicate laments.
While Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs may have found commercial success out of the box with the poppy house single "Garden," the accompanying full-length showed that Orlando Higginbottom was more than a one-trick pony.
Dance-pop without the stigma of, well, being dance-pop, comes from someone who admitted to Clash himself that the album format had him thinking overtime.
The in-demand dance artist nods to Black Box and Daft Punk on his eclectic debut, writes <strong>Molloy Woodcraft</strong>
<p>Orlando Higginbottom wears headdresses like Lady Gaga and shows equal bravado in the musical influences he has acquired, writes <strong>Paul MacInnes</strong></p>