The second album by the Brighton-formed experimental post-punks after 2021’s Bright Green Field sees them push into abstract prog, folk, jazz and other musical territory of light and shade, loud to intimate and intricate, all with sharp sense of life’s tragedy, comedy and absurdity. With clever stop-start structures, horns, keyboard and guitar textures across the quintet, and singer-drummer Ollie Judge mixing up the talky, shouty and sensual, there’s an ever wider palette of sounds within their instruments. Several tracks are six or more minutes, so there’s also an epic feel of experimentation, with standouts including Swing (In A Dream), The Blades, and Undergrowth, but as well as Devil’s Den and the agile, fresh Green Light, there’s so much more going on, and further listens will unearth a plethora of new ideas and musical boldness, the closing track building with oddball riffs and ominous backing vocals, who can ignore a title such as If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away? Another clever, and unusual landmark. Out on Warp.
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