Remaining founder member Angus Andrew is joined by drummer Laurence Pike and multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell on a rich return to form of dark, cinematic, menacing and entrancingly strange songs. The eccentricity and sheer oddness is ever present, but there is a greater coherence here than 2018’s Titles With The Word Fountain where Andrew was mostly doing the work alone, but here Pike’s drumming really comes to the fore. Key tracks include Big Appetite, Sekwar, Star Search, From What The Never Was, the chanting opener The Start, the garage rock of My Pulse to Ponder, and King Of The Crooks, which has an epic Scott Walker dimension, while other songs echo everything from The Birthday Party to Pink Floyd to Radiohead. A work, at times, for extreme and particular tastes, but this new album will please fans and, with so much unpredictability of form and content, mesmerise the newly curious. Out on Mute.
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