From the sound of Hot Canyon Butter it appears that that Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine might?ve gone into this record with a particular musical agenda. Landing at a disembowelled Electric jazz sound they inject minute elements of funk, though circumventing jazz funk, they?ve formed a salubrious organic combination of sounds. The health benefits of Spring must?ve been in the air for this, one of the most relaxed Paine / Youngs pair-ups so far. That?s not to say its Love influenced noodling, there?s still grit and squelch in fair doses, it just has a more languid feel than their usual sessions. With moth flutter percussion, straight beats, Paine?s outsourced harmonica the record skates on brief corded patterns. The opener and closer are the oddest pieces, seemingly cut from the same cloth of untutored cross-genre movements heard through a haze of salt water (and pre-decomposition). The early electrics are at the melodic heart of this one, and it?s another success for the duo. 9/10 -- Scott McKeating (13 May, 2008)