More strange
things from Italy………Coming to you from the New Model Label is
Furfuzzy/Furflies, a split 7” single from two great bands, Unmade Bed and LipsAgainst The Glass. Unmade Bed come from a more psychedelic and Post Rock
background, having opened shows for artists like Robin Guthrie, American Music
Club and Jennifer Gentle, while Lips Against The Glass are a minimal electronica/experimental
duo who have gained a reputation for
their remix work and providing live soundtracks to classic silent films (they
have presented live soundtracks for Cecil Hepworth’s 1903 movie Alice In
Wonderland and “Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari” by Robert Wiene, in both clubs
and museums).
The concept
of the two bands doing split single together is to highlight the similarities
of the music they both make although they are essentially coming together from
two different directions, both tracks are totally psychedelic but in their
own way. The A side of the single (the “Furfuzzy” side), ‘The Big Sleep’, is a
fantastic slice of sparkling psychedelia from Unmade Bed, ethereal guitars
gently swirl around clattering drums as the track slowly builds and then drifts
back into the haze it emerged from. The flip side (“Furflies”) features the
Lips Against The Glass dark, psychedelic minimal Electronica/Shoegaze tune ‘Only
To’ which blends beats, bass and looping guitars to great effect. The digital
download includes a further four tracks…..Unmade Bed contribute one track, ‘Dillon
Haunted The Night’, which is another excellent psychedelic slowburner in the
same vein as ‘The Big Sleep’. There are two additional tracks from Lips Against
The Glass (‘Blue Circles’ and ‘Not/Only’) and a final track which is a collaboration
between both bands and is from the Cecil Hepworth Alice In Wonderland
project……these are all haunting, stripped back, minimal tunes that bring
to mind early Sigur Ros and the experimental soundscapes of múm. There are some
really interesting things going on here and well worth checking out.
The full
digital download is available from both iTunes and Amazon. You can get a copy
of the vinyl version (including download code), which is available as a limited
edition pressing of only 50 copies, from https://lipsagainstglass.bandcamp.com/.
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