Writhing Squares - Out of the Ether - VINYL LP

Writhing Squares have been conjuring up cosmic slop from the Philadelphia underground for a few years now, mixing growling bass, motorik synthesis, and skronking sax into a heady brew of punk-laced progressive R'n'R. The duo of Daniel Provenzano & Kevin Nickles emerged in 2015 with their self-released InchGemini BluesInch 7-nch, following it up the next year with their debut album InchIn The Void AboveInch for the renowned Siltbreeze imprint. InchOut of The EtherInch is their sophomore effort, & first for Trouble In Mind. The album consists of 5 tracks of minimal, droning ambience, overtaken at times by Nickles' wailing, sax skronk; a mixture of the soulful runs of The Stooges' Steve McKay & the no-wave stabs of James Chance - drum machine, and Provenzano's guttural basslines that add an industrial menace to a locked-in groove and lysergicly introspective lyrics. Album closer InchA Whole New JupiterInch takes up all of the LP version's side two, slingshotting the listener over the event horizon and thru the center of a sonically sculpted black hole, it's relentless motorik dirge evolving over the course of the track's 19-minute run time into an abstract pulse before lurching back into the groove, riding it into the sun. Album Tracks 1. Dirt in My Mind's Eye 2. Steely Eyed Missile Man 3. Bloodborne Hate and Black Book Mass 4. I Turned to the Mirror 5. A Whole New Jupiter