This volume is only available for download and on cassette which may explain why a CD review copy arrived cracked and unplayable (see image).
This UK duo have collaborated through file sharing to produce an uncompromising celebration of fuzzy noise, drone and general weirdness with healthy shades of Charalambides or Jackie O Motherfucker.
Bradley is a founder member of the shamefully underrated Vibracathedral Orchestra and his other projects include working solo as The Piss Foundation.
Cooper is described as musician who is "interested in re-imagining the conventions of song writing" and you'd be hard pressed anything resembling a traditional structure in any of the ten tracks. Her occasional ghostly and plaintive vocals are buried in the mix like an extra instrument.
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The distortions and corrosions captured on tape are such that they sound disintegrated even though they are freshly produced. Most of the tracks are quite short, like off-cuts from longer improvisations.
The two longest pieces And And And And and Nowhere From The Water To Go are the most satisfying in that they stretch and extend the feeling of eeriness and unease.
Cut up voice samples of The Mirror end 'Side B' in rough analogue style conjuring up visions of a looking glass as crack'd from side to side as my digital disc.
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