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Recommended by us on 11th June 2010
...according to our Brett on Thu 10 Jun, 2010.
Islet are from Cardiff and their debut album is called Celebrate This Place, which is ironic because no-one's celebrating there since their football team didn't get promoted this season. Well my team didn't either so we can all drown our sorrows by listening to their sounds and considering how they're gonna appeal to people into the modern purveyors of the No Wave mentality (Liars, maybe Gang Gang Dance to some degree or, on a more local level, Medicine and Duty). Keeping it NY, I'm occasionally getting a weird whiff of Arthur Russell but maybe that's just 'cos the vocals are pretty echoey a lot of the time and Arthur Russell invented echo in his shed in the 80s. So yeah, there's all sorts going on in this satisfyingly chaotic mix but it's all good stuff so I'm giving it the big ups. It's cheap too!
Debut release from Cardiff based Islet.
Released as a limited edition vinyl LP (500 copies only) and digital download.
· Islet are liquid, rotating between instruments, singing, howling.
Drum-duo breakdowns, splashes of guitar, searing organs.
Playing music for the joy of the moment.
· 'Celebrate This Place' is a paean to possibility and the joy of
sound and being.
· It was recorded by the group themselves at home in a
Mid-Wales barn and a Cardiff bedroom.
· This, their first record, crosses the danceable electro-wash
of Gang Gang Dance and the careful racket of no-wave,
the dulcet harmonies of Os Mutantes and the rhythmic
noisiness of Can.
We Shall Visit * Iris * One Of These Worlds *
Jasmine * Holly * Rowan
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