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‘We don’t care whether it’s cool or not’: inside the weaponised weirdness of Mermaid Chunky
How did an oddball Stroud duo, who once played the wedding of two ceramic dogs, come to get signed by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy? Nothing is ordinary in the world of Mermaid Chunky
But after hearing tracks from their 2020 debut Vest on the online radio station NTS, Murphy was entranced, emailing to tell the duo: “You’ve restored my faith in music.” Now their first full-length album for the label, slif slaf slof, looks set to work that magic on the public at large. It presents a beguiling world where looped recorders tootle primitive melodies, where charmingly homemade house bangers rub shoulders with squelchy rodeo funk, and where a castlist of eccentrics (including dipsomaniac lift attendants with Henry VIII obsessions and lusty divorcees from the deep south) run riot. Tate moved to Brighton to study; when she returned and found herself “in that post-uni period, feeling like a weird blob, some sort of failure, like I’d dropped from outer space”, she and Moin refocused their energies on Mermaid Chunky (named after a kind of yarn).
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