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Room Inside The World (Merge)
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PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH wait for love (Epitaph)
With 2014’s ‘Keep You’, Pianos Become The Teeth firmly shook off their screamo label, opting for huge melodies under Kyle Durfey’s foreboding vocals. And here on ‘Wait For Love’, the quintet show little interest in reclaiming the genre. Instead, these ten tracks build on swirling atmospherics, bigger than before but retaining a distinctive claustrophobic density. They find beauty in bleakness, creating captivating shadowy soundscapes. ‘Wait For You’ carries this delicate juxtaposition with ease, underpinned by the band’s continued reinvention and ability to challenge convention. (Ben Tipple) LISTEN: ‘Manila’
Ought deal in anxiety and nervousness, and their sense of panic has been one of their defining attributes so far. But what happens when they present something a little less tense? ‘Room Inside The World’ still exhibits those nail-biting moments in places, (most prominently on the Cure-esque noodling of ‘Disaffectation’) but its largely a record that explores beyond what has made up Ought’s palette in the past. ‘These 3 Things’ would get Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring pulling some shapes in a heartbeat, as singer Tim Darcy does his best Morrissey croon over a post-punk-gone-pop bass line. Anxiety might still be rooted in Ought’s foundations, but by looking beyond it the four-piece have made their richest, greatest work yet. (Rhian Daly) LISTEN: ‘Brief Shield’
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DRAWING BOARD with ought
The band’s Ben Stidworthy gives us a visual guide to Ought’s latest.
Q1 Please could you do a drawing of a room inside the world?
Q2 Where did you go to record the album?
Q3 Please could you show us a few favourite socks from the sock factory you rehearse at?
Q4 Who would you most like to chuck ‘Into the Sea’?
eeee NILS FRAHM all melody (Erased Tapes)
‘All Melody’, Nils Frahm’s ninth solo album, is a name both odd and, eventually, totally appropriate. His melodies are obtuse, or at least not glaringly obvious, everything he plays is precise, from the earthy piano tread of ‘Fundamental Values’ to the propeller-like opening of ‘#2’. For Nils Frahm, this record is nothing new: on his terms it is not extraordinary. But for mere mortals, ‘All Melody’ is a bracing cacophony of the possibilities of minute sonic experimentation. (Ellen PeirsonHagger) LISTEN: ‘Sunson’ 74 diymag.com
Q5 If this record was a mythical creature, what would it look like?
