Andrew Weatherall - Bullet Catcher's Apprentice (CD)

All Music Guide

When Andrew Weatherall released The Bullet Catcher's Apprentice, the first release credited to the producer/DJ by name, he had been active for nearly 20 years. Despite the decision to not conjure his umpteenth alias, this EP isn't necessarily more personal than usual. The first three tracks fall somewhere between Two Lone Swordsmen's brutish, postpunkdriven From the Double Gone Chapel and the material that immediately preceded it. In "Feathers" and "You Can't Do Disco Without a Strat," the decrease in the stroppy, blearyeyed stagger of Double Gone is replaced with mobility and even some playfulness. "La Sirena," amusingly, resembles an electropunk remix of Southern Culture on the Skids' "Camel Walk" (even if the intent was to approximate something closer to the Cramps). Repeat/Repeat's "You Can't Do Disco" remix, the last track, is minimal house noir worthy of Trentemøller or Wighnomy Brothers.

- Andy Kellman, All Music Guide