On the back of last year’s double LP début comes this teasing taste of UUUU‘s expanding soundworld, a two-track twelve inch that steeps your ear in some mighty fine sonics as your eye is creeped out by the grainy black and white of the cover.
The first side, “Electric Blanket”, is a shifting dune of intrigue as its curling psychedelics cup a complex cocoon of darting shapes and melodic purrs. A slow majestic dilation snaked in fluting rivers, texturally mauled in brief abrasives. Abstracting colours that are caught in the teeth of grunting animals that headphonically glisten like zombized roadkill before a soft pulsing anvil conspires with synthy washes to slip away from your grasp in vaporising spectrals. A weave that dances in your mind’s eye like a half-remembered dream full of disconcerting shadowplay.
The second side, “Nice Setting”, spins out spindle-wrapped in some spoken word from Edvard Graham Lewis — or is that Thighpaulsandra? Prophetic fragments swim in spittled sonics and weirded-out ribbons that bloat, burst in slow curves around the words like malformed shrimp. A superb skittery sensation that intoxicates, fans out in decorative distorts and the odd xylophonic glassiness. “It’s all about time”, goes the slur of vocal drowned in sibilant echoes and fluttering discordance. “Give all to the present… As long as it lasts”, he warns as an alarm clock ticks in decaying symmetries, and the sub-atomics scuffle on hinge(ing) metallics and whispering aethers.This four-cornered beast of Lewis, Valentina Magaletti, Matthew Simms and Thighpaulsandra certainly know how to party.
-Michael Rodham-Heaps-
