Nicholas Allbrook – Walrus EP

Nicholas Allbrook experiments with sounds and with voices, pulling them in and out, mashing them up like a Cold Rock ice cream with all the flavours. Some bits stick out while others glue them all together.

Musical and random, jumpy and rhythmic, the Walrus EP is a mix of everything. Distant like an out of range radio tuning to a new station, a chinese woman speaks over the top of voices from beneath the water. Electronic sounds intersperse and other sounds disappear in the mix like animals slowing falling into quicksand, calling faintly.

Reminiscent of Portishead but with more packed into it, Allbrook forces things together like a mad scientist in his lab: unnatural, shocking, weird, wonderful and new.

Try some new flavours, delve your spoon into the quagmire and take a few bites before deciding. (SP)

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