Fast Soul Music

London Elektricity - Lunatics & Legends (Album)

Tony Colman has always thrived in the in-between spaces: between styles, between scenes, between the sensible and the joyfully irrational. With Lunatics & Legends, the Hospital Records co-founder - operating here under his own Fast Soul Music imprint - builds an album-length love letter to what happens when you let go of guardrails and invite the glorious chaos in.

Across 13 tracks, Colman turns the studio into a gathering place for “slightly unhinged geniuses,” as he puts it. Friends and fellow travellers whose quirks, instincts, and flashes of madness make them, in his eyes, both lunatics and legends. It’s not a record for box-tickers. “We have AI for that now,” he says. Instead, this is music made for the hell of it; improvised moments stretched into widescreen arrangements, unexpected pairings yielding unlikely magic.

There’s opener “Lovebombs” with Catching Cairo, a one-take vocalist whose husky ease slips between a Brazilian minimal D&B skeleton and Rowland Sutherland’s liquid jazz flute, creating a conversation in melody and breath. “(I Don’t Want ) To Fly Away”, featuring Liane Carroll, offers “yacht rock D&B you never knew you needed” - a song whose simplicity is its whole charm, polished only with a few horn lines and sunlit guitar textures.

Elsewhere, Colman gives in to pure momentum: “Echoes in the Dance” with Danny Byrd was conceived and executed in a single 12-hour burst, a rarity in Colman’s meticulous world. “Painkiller”, with Gentleman’s Dub Club, began life as a dubstep sketch before Colman doubled the tempo, folded in his 15 year old son Stanley's brass, and landed on a horn-laced anthem about the bittersweet end of co-dependency.

And then there’s the closer “The Number’s Man” (Part 2), a beatless, psychedelic coda to the album, shaped from hours of Rob Gentry’s synth and piano improvisations, adorned with spoken word, and once again crowned by Stanley’s horn playing. It’s an “anti-2025” statement, an answer to a drum & bass culture where too many tracks are designed to expire before they’ve even breathed.

Lunatics & Legends is Colman’s reminder that the best music isn’t always sensible. It’s what happens when you invite the misfits and the masters into the same room, give them space to play, and follow the thread wherever it leads.

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