Spoils & Relics
Threadbare Adult Life
The UK Trio return with a monumental work of moaning and hissing electronics, bars encounters and tapes actions. Spoils & Relics are Gary Myles, Kieron Piercy, and Johnny Scarr, an experimental trio from UK. Ed Pinsent (The Sound Projector) descives them as, "a very perplexing listening experience. It’s far from clear what we might be hearing; improvisations, field recordings, found sounds, all of the above. It’s as though they set themselves the task of editing a feature film... to remove…
Sins of omission
A mutating web of feedback, choral echoes and lo-fi loops of various squeaking, rattling found sounds, settling gently into certain texture combinations before teasing the stasis through jolts of pitch bend or slow fades into somewhere else. It's a real nightmare collage: one minute it's a blast of screaming electronics, like someone tampering with the cockpit controls, and the next it's tornado of factory noise and alien sex. Musique concrete for the mind's darker, more paranoid recesses, with …