cold pumas & an experiment on a bird in the air pump

i have always been attracted to disurbingly long names. double-barreled surnames turn me on, lords and ladies, and track titles for the songs of the untouchable Liars. it takes balls to convince your label that the debut album simply must be called "The Unfathomable Haunt of Josie Davis' Aunt (She Left her Panicked Dresses on the Stairs)", or something.

with London's An Experiment... we are met with pure evil. stumbling up the lawn, where are the drugs?-style gloom that sits healthily between space art and lost vocals, with tones that even sound reminiscent of an early, deconstructed Swans. An Experiment... are nodding towards something truly terrifying. follow them. "The Violets of Dawn" is a tame, DIY thing, to ease you into the weird.




An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump -- The Violets of Dawn (r-click for dl)

Brighton's Cold Pumas are rather different. think minimalist, riff-insisting sunburnt Battles. i truly like the name too -- a pair of really wet, frozen puma campus sneakers that you see when you look down the stairs after you crash round someone's house. that's what we're talking about here. + one of their titles features a gorgeous pun about yeast and a long-forgotten sega master system/mega drive game.




Cold Pumas -- Foghat Rodeo (r-click for dl)

bonus: catch both these bands @ upset the rhythm soon enough...

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