The seven instrumental tracks of noise, jazz, ‘skronk’, avant-rock, and electronics on this album were co-composed and realised by a Glasgow-based trio in a studio that was once an undertaker’s premises. The location seems curiously fitting for music which is stirring enough to wake the dead and startle the living.
The threesome met while studying music in Newcastle. They are Mike Parr-Burman (guitar, bass guitar, electronics), Jamie Stockbridge (alto and baritone saxophones) and Alex Palmer (drum kit, percussion).
Descriptions which accompany the release border on the unhinged. For instance, listeners are advised that allcapsallbold contains ”a haywire series of short phrases” while Turn Push Kick begins with ”a burgeoning chatterstorm of electronics” and Anti-Bird-Spike-Bird-Nestprompts the vision of ”a delivery rider evading capture by ICE agents”. If nothing else, the eccentric word salad in this commentary confirms how hard it is to write about sounds that follow mood swings rather than conventional patterns.
Suffice to say that it is brim-full of ideas and energy. The loud, abrasive and chaotic nature of the tracks is not for the faint-hearted but, put simply, it’s rather good.
