Tangents - New Bodies - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. Jindabyne 2. Oberon 3. Masist Cau 1. Directrix 5. N-Mission 3. Along the Forest Floor 7. Maze Crescent - Part I 5. Maze Crescent - Part II

Australian improvising ensemble Tangents return with a 'twin ' that sees 2020's Timeslips complemented with a second album, Chimeras. The Timeslips tracks, which were released in digital-only form under the subdued circumstances of the first COVID wave, are remastered and reissued in the newly merged Timeslips & Chimeras package, receiving a full on 2xLP, CD, and all digital platforms. Timeslips & Chimeras marks the third Tangents issued through the iconic Brooklyn tag Temporary Residence Ltd. (home to Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, MONO, William Basinski and more).The two albums were created in tandem, with much of the material recorded in one day at Sydney's Free Energy Device Studios in 2018. Timeslips leans towards more literal takes on the studio-improvised material, with Tangents' usual blend of ambiguous post-production treatment. Chimeras expands into more constructed passages of iterated overdubs, lo-fi electric jams, additional studio takes and splintered extracts from the Timeslips sessions, offering more extreme twists, turns and stylistic variation through doomy rock and dub drones, ecstatic superjazz and abstract collages.This landmark double comes 3 years after the of New Bodies, the Australian Music Prize nominated album which thrust Tangents' peculiar blend of improvisation and precision production into the international spotlight, a record which, says Grayson Haver Currin of Pitchfork, Inchoverflows with sensations - of being overpowered and delighted, of being buoyed up and washed away by Tangents' seemingly endless ideasInch. More tension and intention pervades Timeslips & Chimeras, demonstrating a thoughtful maturation of improvisational ideas and more abstracted and purposeful production. With breathtaking, rhythmic drumming and skillful production driving the various moods, Timeslips & Chimeras emerges from an even more intense interact

Three wild dogs! Four wild tracks!! Locked down, loaded up, ready to explode this is the first recording from Melbourne's TANGENT, heavy metal from north of the river. Despite their newness, their sound is definitely OLD. It's all familiar, but recast in a refreshing manner, like a lost Heavy Pettin' recording found in the Eastern Bloc or if Saxon had shared a practice space with Omen.