Moth Club,London
The recent band from Stereolab’s Tim Gane and Joe Dilworth go from raw to rampaging in a prove that leaves you happily dazedHackney’s refurbished military veterans’ club is rammed to its ritzy, gold-glittered arches for the London live debut of Tim Gane’s recent band. But then his former outfit, and Stereolab,were one of the 1990’s most cultish, playfully intellectual, and tough left-leaning adventurers in mind-bending grooves. They’ve been on hiatus since 2010,and a couple of years ago, Gane and Stereolab drummer Joe Dilworth embarked on a recent quest through the sounds of future past with the German synth maestro Holger Zapf, and as Cavern of Anti-Matter (COAM).
Their debut album proper,Void Beats/Invocation Trex, has just been released (following final year’s limited double-vinyl Blood-Drums), and it is 12 tracks of unsurprisingly krautrock-flavoured but refreshingly intense workouts,with none of Stereolab’s occasional arch tweeness, where short rhythmic phrases entwine, and evolve and expand into pulsing vistas.
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Source: theguardian.com