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Furry Worried Ape (TER130) is the second album by Badge Epoch - Maximilian InchTwigInch Turnbull's solitary variant of the Badge Époque Ensemble - and the first in his discography made almost entirely alone. Following 2021's Scroll, a 2xLP sprawl which WIRE praised as Inchan attempt to fit a whole world onto two slabs of vinyl,Inch this one is all scalpel and no sprawl six tracks, under half an hour, produced and mixed with forensic patience by Turnbull at Clyde's Temple, his garage home-studio.Built bar-by-bar on MIDI programming - using drum sounds from The Cloud Sound, a sample pack drawn from Badge Époque Ensemble sessions - the grooves bend the grid to their own logic, inhabiting an uncanny register between the performed and programmed. From this blur emerges a language steeped in the lavish elegance of Mizell Brothers productions and Love Unlimited's symphonic jazz-funk, refracted through a modern InchhauntologicalInch lens; the cosmopolitan peaks of 1970s studio arrangement, rescaled for an era of automation. Throughout, the album navigates multiple meanings of InchfunkInch syncopated, groove-first mood building; idiosyncratic strangeness; the singular InchstenchInch of a one-person vision commandeering a live-band idiom. Album Tracks 1. Empathic Vertigo 2. Erotic Surveillance 3. I Look Up to See My Only Sunshine 4. Tom Henry's Dream 5. Red Leather Interior 6. Subjective Objectives
