A fan comment left on this group’s MySpace wall read “Never been a fan of dubstep but ‘indiestep’? Now THAT is something I can get into”. With a noted lack of compelling instrumentation and feel-good vocals in the depths of the commercial ocean in recent times, music of the bass variety is cited at the epicentre of a perpetual bassquake across the globe.

If you’re an immense technophile RSS will be known as news feeds that enable you see when a website has added new content. Yet, in this musical instance it stands for Reverend Sound System – an ambitious crossover project from Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon Mclure in tandem with his wife Laura, Jimmy Ocelot and Maticmouth.

Lead single ‘Wife Her Up’ is a colloquial turn of phrase jokingly assigned to an infatuated male’s relationship with his ladyfriend and impending wedding bells. (I digress) Mcclure’s idiom of “This might sound crazy…” sang in that familiar ‘Shefffeel’ twang precedes the catchy hook and is perhaps an ironic assessment on the EP as a whole.

Served on a fresh bed of percussive shuffles and an obligatory wobble bassline ‘Rude’ is next up on the tentative looking menu. However, after one hundred and thirty seconds listening to Mcclures’ courtly auto-croon and Maticmouth’s MJ- inspired refrain of “Ma Ma Sa, Ma Ma Si, Oh Ah Ar Chi Ka/ Dunno why dat gal make mi watch afar” The relative lack of impetus via an improv bassdrop or stealth soundscapes resigns the remainder of this song to archetypically insipid territory.

The remixes save the collection with Jamie Grind marinating the lead track with rolling Footwork-esque kicks and R&B vocals for a laidback house flavour. Tectonic’s Jack Sparrow enthuses tribal percussion; syncopated drumkicks in tandem with rising halfstep make for an abstract blend connotative of UK Funky. Atmospheric synth stabs; warped subbass and chilling snare patterns are the ingredients that make for an appeased denouement from Dub Police veteran Distinction.

RSS have chosen the wildcard option attempting to transcend the digital and analogue in this project, and created an mediocre debut. Yet, what remains to be seen and (more importantly) heard is whether a forthcoming LP can unknowingly enlighten the senses.