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One to watch: Bad With Phones


After a car crash and a two-year break, the south London bassist and producer releases his trippy, redemptive debut album

His newly released debut album , Crash, blurs genres with the trippy haze of after-hours: lead single Don’t Talk to Me is a jerky slice of LCD-ish dance-punk, where he’s avoiding chatty people at a party while “really high on shrooms”. Devils deploys the drowsy, detuned guitars so beloved of south London indie artists; Monica Too sounds like the Weeknd put through a mangler. Bad With Phones is the alias of Manny T Deroy, AKA Emmanuel Folorunso, a Deptford-born bassist and producer who has been releasing songs since 2018.

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