Prangers - Gomp [7" Vinyl]

Yous Records

£9.90

Format: 7" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: YOUS1
Barcode: 710497553933
Release Date: 29 Mar 2024
Genre: Experimental / Electronic

Prangers’ sound is unprisable, perhaps impossible to uproot from the landscape that spawns it.

On Gomp, the Rochdale trio forge and graft a kind of sonic semblance of wire, flesh and bracken - a misshapen organism that scuttles across the damp amber of the pennines. Collected from their environment, collages of local field recordings and tape-jammed voices hang over the trio's mill-gamelan of scrap percussion, with the whole thing force-fed back on itself through a neat duality of blunt electronics and sharp sample processing.

Although the form of its language feels human, the rhythm and definition is stretched to a point of almost attractive grotesque: de-elasticated and drubbed into a curiously unrecognisable state by the busted motor speeds and over-voltaged electrics that power it.

Through the electric static of Prangers' transmit, the outline of an awesomely unsettling shape comes into focus.

Tracklist:
Gomp 02:23
DD 01:37
Burnley Road 02:42
Ewan 01:18