Human Heads // In The Afternoon TAPE

イギリスの物音作家Graham Dunning主宰レーベルFractal Meat Cutsを本邦初入荷しました。

本作は、グラスゴーの物音ポップデュオHuman Headsが2021年3月に50本限定でリリースしたカセットです。物音ポップ7曲を収録。既に廃盤です。DLコード付属。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Fractal Meat Cuts releases available at Tobira. 

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Human Heads are an electro-pop sprechgesang duo from Glasgow.

Human Heads deliver a whopping sensory twofer; a vial of fragrant oil for your proboscis and six doses of throbbing-synth-extrusions and poetry-speak-sung for your inky flappers. On listening, it’s the overall heaviness what mugs me first – narrative and synthetic. ‘You shouldn’t have met’ is a slice of crafty street recording, school kids on the blab rapping on death, that’s soon dive-bombing deeply like Sabbath picked up a couple of Korg SB-100’s rather than them dirty guitars.

As the tracks unspool we follow stories (possibly reflections, possibly prophecies) on the full-body foxtrot and crucifixion. Pixelated piano is preceded by the delighted squeaking of a small child, a train’s rhythmic rattle and Scott Joplin’s entertaining hands. R.D. Laing is in a nostalgic mood so things end with the sort of dry-rot clunk Kanye would have chipped a tooth for on his self-titled Yeezus opus.

And if you are wondering? This is all decidedly, deliciously groovy. This release is both sweet and suspiciously tangy. Think peaches and goat’s cheese. I offer you ‘Pure Plaza’ dear reader...the very real sound of a zeppelin slowly deflating, warm gaseous breath fluttering out of the loose tarpaulin. Overhead, untrustworthy sparks crackle, grey birds fitting in mid-flight. It gets choppy as a rowing boat on the briny - waves of sparkling keyboards a dangerous undertow, moving my feet one way and my hips the other.

‘Diana & Paola’ scoops the heart out of the very idea of a ‘song’. The domestic rattles (a spoon on a cup perhaps) anchor me as the songs recording processes are unpacked, laid out and stripped bare as a freshly delivered foal, slick with gore. In fact all through the proceedings narratives pick up loose ends, make new knots and connections. Ideas leap between tracks. Sounds suggest other sounds, mutate and evolve; beautiful like drizzle, the soft slips kiss my exposed face and neck.

Make no mistake; Human Heads are standing on the edge of mystery-blood and psychiatry mathematics.
Joe Murray (September 2020) 

artist : Stuart Chalmers

label : fractal meat cuts