Description:	CD on Fire Records
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental Indie
	Label:	Fire
	Price:	£10.29
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Brett on 18 September 2008.

Pumajaw now, don't think I've heard these before but they sound quite intriguing. As is a little bit of a fashion at the moment this is folky stuff wrapped up in a musty experimental blanket woven together in a Gap sweatshop from strands of Eastern percussion, accordion, effects pedals and drone. Have you seen those war rugs they make in Afghanistan? Fucking mint, those. There's an almost tribal intensity to some of these tracks that I find very appealing, most notably in the battering psych-out of 'Horseshoe Nail'. The singer lady's got a hell of a voice, cooing serenely like Nico one minute and screeching like Kate Bush being eaten alive by ferrets the next. If you liked the recent Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh collaboration you'll probably like Curiosity Box, maybe for fans of Alexander Tucker too?

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What their label says...

Freshly signed to Fire Records, Pinkie Maclure and John Wills (Pumajaw) combine Pinkie’s unique, multi-octave voice with looped guitar, mandolin, samples, concertina and hypnotic rhythms. Their own seductive sound stretches from psychedelic pop through sultry folk songs to eerie, cacophonous, trance-inducing laments. Live, they can create a surprisingly big racket for two people and have a reputation for taking the music into sonically adventurous realms of animalistic, ritualistic intensity.
New album ‘Curiosity Box’ [released this September] is their fifth and features guest appearances from Alasdair Roberts (Drag City) and James Yorkston (Domino).