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Writhing Squares - the Philadelphia duo of Kevin Nickles (sax, flute, synth) & Daniel Provenzano (bass, vocals) - have been refining the nuts & bolts of their sound over their previous two albums. Their latest (and second for Trouble In Mind), InchChart For The SolutionInch is a double album chock full what makes them tick; heady, progressive, psychedelic space-rock-cum-minimal synth slop, punctuated by MacKay/Chance-style blasts of brass & woodwinds that definitely scratch an itch. Over the course of InchChart For The SolutionInchs four sides, Nickles & Provenzano utilize the extended to stretch out & settle into a groove all their own. From the relentless synth pulse of opener InchRogue MoonInch, thru the aggro-throb of InchGeisterwaltzInch & four-on-the-floor scree of InchGanymedeInch, The Squares have no mercy for your weary ears. After a brief, (slightly) mellow respite thru three tunes (InchThe Abyss Is Never BrighterInch/InchA Chorus of ElectronsInch/InchThe LibraryInch), the band ratchets up the intensity with the cacophonous clatter of InchNFUInch (featuring Philly legend InchHarmonicaInch Dan Balcer RIPPING thru runs on his harp) leading right into the album's centerpiece; all of Side Three's InchThe PillarInch, a near-nineteen minute epic suite that launches the listener straight into the maw of a black hole & thru the other side. Side Four closes out InchChart For The SolutionInch starting with the slinky stomp of InchNorth Side of The SkyInch into InchResurrect Dead On Planet WhateverInchs unsettling, cosmic-funeral dirge. Fittingly, InchEpilogueInch closes out the album, with Nickles' sax dive bombing around Provenzano's bass throb like an alien interpretation of InchFunhouseInchs howling anarchy,augmented by live drums by John Schoemaker & organ by Alex Ward. Recorded by the band themselves & utilizing recordings made from 2015 all the way thru earlie
