A first LP for 12 years by the Australian experimental trio of Nick Cave right-hand man Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White with mesmeric distortions and synthesized loops of guitar, drums, piano, percussion and violin. Atmosheric, moody, crashing, droning, fuzzy, messy, bluesy, elegiac, mercurial, tumultuous to ambient to adagio, it’s all here as the three amigos break out into their seemingly chaotic but wonderfully atmospheric experimental and improvised sounds. There are six long tracks, parts 1-6 all with the same title. After the stormy opener, no 2 is softer, more tranquil and piano with distant, non-verbal drones. The third is the darkest and full of unrest, the fourth, gentle lilting guitar and violin, reaching into silence. The fifth opens with a fast metronomic percussion, and instruments like time running at different speeds and riffs, finally coming together. while the final track is 10-minute epic. Evocative, strange but rather magical like the soundrack to a surreal wilderness movie. Out on Drag City Records.
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