Hull's Jodie Langford Delivers Big On Debut EP Chaos Of Time

With electro backing throughout, this spoken word EP covers a wide range of emotional experiences. Accomplished word play walks you through the workings of Jodie Langford’s seemingly over stimulated mind in a highly relatable way. Just like it says on the tin, title track Chaos Of Time doffs its cap to 90s club culture, while lyrically dealing with the frustration of being locked in your own private ‘groundhog day’ - “There’s a bomb on this train of thought, conductor please let me off!” spits an uneasy Langford over intense electronica.

Sometimes feverishly hedonistic & other times highly personal, you get the feeling this is an artist who’s living life the raw way, rolling with the punches but always demanding to have her day and be heard by the many. On Heartbroken, Langford manages to look at the lighter side of despair and overcomes it to great advantage, while Catching X’s deals with parental example and patterns learnt ,only to rise above and seek resolve.

Take Your Money is for me the sweet spot on the EP with a beat that almost lifts you out of your seat, while the lyric explodes with anger at the defunding of the NHS and the rest. While Neighbourhood Watch shifts the energy somewhat musically, it’s still on topic as it deals with judgement and self-acceptance – and then to finish off there’s a reworking of her lockdown anthem I Miss It… what’s not to love!

Euphoric beats come by way of Hull producer Endoflevelbaddie, who seems to have an adept knack for underpinning Langford’s informed language with an expansive landscape of techno & DnB vibes. Plenty to get involved in here on this EP which gives it a depth of meaning not often associated with club beats. For that reason this is elemental stuff dealing frankly and honestly with the anxieties of growing into adulthood through an over saturated media fed world. Langford has arrived, Elvis has left the building.

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