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This EP from these North London noise mongers starts off with detuned sludgy guitar, swathed in reverb and despondency. A strong start then... but as this record progresses you realize that all the sludge has dissipated and you are left with a sort of weird hybrid of sorts. If Sonic Youth & Dinosaur JR somehow had a love child and raised it on a healthy diet of Ride and maybe Jesus & Mary Chain this is what its little voice would sound like. The first track, as I said has a real dirge type feel to it with a relaxed swing and sounds dense and multi-layered. The other tracks have a bit more tunefulness and punch. They are quite catchy and rustle up a very grungey very arty brew. Its a pretty sweet record so it's not hard to be won over by these chipmunks as they take you on a shoegaze trip down the river...
The first proper single to be taken from their imminent debut album, released on Pharmacy Recording Company/ Fat Possum in January, it is, quite contrarily, a majestic and sprawling, synapse-frying 7-minute statement of intent which begins in a mesmerising haze of feedback before gradually building momentum, with Daniel Blumberg’s repeated cries of “should I give in?” urging the song forward before it crescendos and collapses into itself. “The Base of a Dream is Empty” meanwhile, is an ethereal blur of chiming guitars and spectral vocals, while the instrumental jam “Dark Magnet” crunches and squalls in all the right places, calling to mind Sonic Youth circa “Sister”.
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