Horse Cocaine & Meth is a personal project of Chicago based producer DJ Horse, and this latest outing is a follow-up on 2016’s powerful “In The Wee Small Hours”. The title track is a tail call to a long forgotten past, a quiet, weary dirge; the LP version is more of a high-stakes gamble. The sleazy beats and the sleight of hand motifs are there to easily recognise, but the music is always about the same thing: dread. “The heart of the city is darkness”, says the narrator of one of the LP’s most haunting passages. “This is the hole in the heart of the city”, he continues, “There are times when you need to go deeper”. The narrator is a phantom, an ideal imitation of a living human being, but this is never really a living thing. “It’s like lifting a city from the pit, building a city from the pit”.