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Determined to dodge every pigeonhole, the band’s forthcoming mixtape veers from lulling acoustic to nightmarish noise, free jazz to prog post-rock
It was the work of an eight-piece collective – all its members have other careers, both musical and otherwise (their ranks include a fashion designer and a visual artist) – formed in Brighton, but now dotted around south London: they apparently record in a disused shipping container and their social media presence consists of a solitary Instagram post. Their forthcoming mixtape Lightning Hit the Trees offers more of the pigeonhole-swerving same: music that veers from lulling and acoustic to nightmarish and noise-laden, from free jazzy improv to soundtrack atmospherics to prog-flecked post-rock, every one of its 29 minutes packed with ideas. Cate Le Bon – Heaven Is No Feeling “You smoke our love like you’ve never known violence,” the Welsh musician sings witheringly on the first taste of her seventh album, atop a sea of dazed sax and murky, liquid guitar.
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