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Still House Plants: If I Don’t Make It, I Love U review – inspiringly fearless and free art rock
Powered by Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach’s astonishing singing, the British trio explore Dilla-time funkiness and math-rock detail
Creeping ever further out of the underground since forming at Glasgow School of Art in 2015, you’d need a whiteboard to triangulate the various acts that come to mind listening to them – Bill Orcutt, This Heat, Tirzah, Zach Hill, Labradford; free improv, neo-soul, slowcore, post-rock, boom-bap hip-hop. Still House Plants: if I don’t make it, I love you album artworkDavid Kennedy’s drumming is riveting, both finicky and louche as he sways through Dilla-time funkiness and math-rock detail. From her melted-siren melody on MMM to the larynx-flexing motifs on Silver Grit Passes Thru My Teeth, she’s doing things that wouldn’t even occur to other singers; it’s gripping to hear someone put absolute faith in the power of expression without irony or fear.
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