Anthology

House, techno, breakbeats? All of the above and more, as the ever-evasive Pork continue to duck any convenient labelling in their ongoing quest to side-step bland, genre-specific beats with Sines and Cymbals. The Bullitnutt’s Murray “Muzz” Clarke is the latest artist to step to the plate, here expanding upon his glorious solo debut From Here To G with more solid steel curios. As the opening “New Deal” sets out the stall, with Dave Harte’s harmonica blowing hazy smoke rings around an inspiring vocal agenda, so the album spends the next hour walking the world of dance music–at its strongest with breezing late night grooves á la Nightmares on Wax, yet maintaining momentum through skanked slo-mo excursions with acoustic touches and an organic use of instrumentation. As “For Sergei” observantly announces midway through the album, “Deep–very, very deep.”–Kingsley Marshall

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On 2004’s They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, Liars began to explore the mesmerising motorik of psych-rock. This was in contrast to their dance-punk debut They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top but of course that didn’t bother a band content to write their own rules as they go along To record Drum’s Not Dead the group moved from New York to Berlin, indulged in their krautrock influences a little more and tapped into not one but two muses, represented by two fictional characters: the confident, assertive Drum and the reserved, hesitant Mt. Heart Attack. The record oscillates between these two polar extremes; songs such as “Be Quiet Mt. Heart Attack!” comes on in a rush of broken-down guitar riffs, military rhythms and frontman Angus Andrew’s elegant falsetto; “Drum Gets a Glimpse” carries more ethereal melodies alongside a feast of abstract guitar lines and swishing percussive susurrations. At times the band’s pounding double-drums, screaming guitar feedback and howling vocals create a mad sound that makes you yearn for calmer examples of their ethereal voodoo. Luckily on this album, such moments never too far away. –Paul Sullivan

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