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You don’t have to be Simon Reynolds or some other such egghead to know there’s a longstanding link between popular drugs and popular music.

Who in their right mind would have tolerated interminable Grateful Dead concerts? Nobody. Everyone concerned had taken so many ‘ludes and so much LSD that they lost all perception of time passing. Fleetwood Mac tracks are what the world sounds like when you’ve had cocaine blown straight up your bottom.

Lone’s album was called Ecstasy & Friends. His new tracks are called ‘Pineapple Crush’ and ‘Angel Brain’. It sounds like he had a lot of fun making them. The former comes across like peak-era Chicago house, viewed through Lone’s distinctive hypnagogic lens, while ‘Angel Brain’ is a full-on peak-time party work out, all rave whoops, handclaps and fizzingly synthetic hi-hats. Both tracks are great, although I hope Lone’s feeling alright now. He could maybe do with some magnesium.

Colin McKean