A morose, fractured and willfully chaotic record, comprising sharp guitar over acoustic-ish sounds with stark lyrical musings on death and ageing.

19 MP3 Songs in this album (58:59) !
Related styles: Pop: Pop Underground, Folk: Psych-folk, Type: Lo-Fi

People who are interested in Pavement Smog Spare Snare should consider this download.


Details:
Second album from the Glasgow duo and this - don't get me wrong - is more of the same. 19 tracks of stream of consciousness thrown down on an 8-track and thrust roughly on to cd - indeed, there's more than 19 here, as tracks merge into each other and generally collapse into chaos. It's a curious amalgam of spindly guitar, gloomy bass and fractured vocals which calls on myriad influences - on 'Erased' it's somewhere between Ballboy and Pavement, 'Memory' snaps at the senses like an acerbic Spare Snare, 'Chestnut' could be Sonic Youth unplugged; while Smog comes to mind more than once in what is an intriguing listen.

Is This Music? review (an independent music magazine from Scotland)