Pumajaw - Demonmeowmeow

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With its dark electronics, visceral lyrics and cinematic guitar lines, PumaJaw’s new album Demonmeowmeow moves on from their previous alt-folk influences and burns with a new, electric intensity. John Wills’ (ex-Loop) swaps acoustic guitar for electric and rediscovers the ritualistic drumming he was known for in the 80s and 9os, to make a soundtrack that conjures up car chases and unsettling dream sequences. Pinkie Maclure abandons the folk influences of recent years and returns with vigour to her early inspirations of the great singers of jazz, blues and the avant-garde, her exceptional voice throbbing deep into your gut to create scarily relevent, seductive songs of sex, corruption, hope and despair.

Tracklisting:

1.Mazy Laws
2.Outlands
3.Tallulah
4.The Safe Inside
5.Mask
6.Chinny Chin Chin
7.Your Arms Your Doors
8.Tumbledown

John Wills said:

I know exactly what words NOT to use when describing the voice of Pinkie Maclure and the music of PUMAJAW: fey, tantilising. Forget any alternative-folk expectations, this is film noir, yet vigorous, unsettling. Sexy? Absolutely. Seductive? Er… not really, that word to me, implies an attempt to tease, whereas this album is just 'out there', the experiences of sex, corruption, despair and hope. If you are the kind of person who swims in the metaphorical deep end, calm and free, rather than the shallow end, then you too will appreciate and adore the sounds of 'Demonmeowmeow', the new album due for release on the 7th November, Bedevil Records. The soundscapes created by PUMAJAW remind me of great's like Jesus and The Mary Chain, Kratwerk and The Young Gods but they didn't have Pinkie Maclure's legendary vocal range or her poetry or the spaces in this music, the pauses; moments in beautiful places, held up turned gently, lovingly and observed, balanced with pounding rhythms that know exactly where they want to go. And that's just the album opener, 'The Mazy Laws'. Each song swoons in to the next, so that it is one whole piece of work, rather than an LP of songs. PUMAJAW bring to mind the work of sculpture Barbara Hepworth, who tried to capture the primitive forces of nature, rather than musical references. Ngaire Ruth

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