Notes
'Throw in a whiff of English whimsy here, Zappa's lyrical madness and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's convoluted addiction to time changes. A dose of noise and puerility there (and prodigious musical talent) and you have an album that surprises and confounds.' - Sittingnow.co.UK 'Sludge & Tripe' was recorded painstakingly between 2004 and 2008 in a number of derelict houses, basements and studios around London and Bristol, the collective's first album was then stitched together into a twisting, confronting DaDa-rock pronk-pop adventure. Compositions both ape and destroy conventional song structures, as spanners are dexterously jammed into the works. Flirting between ferocious free-jazz improvisations, studio wizardry and meticulously mathematic performances, the album traverses a bizarre progressive landscape while still retaining pop-infused sensibilities. This provides footholds for the ear to cling to, before being pummeled with acrid rubble... Praise for Sludge and Tripe 'Skronking, blattering improv jazz, (with) dreamy choruses exploding into angular pointillist funk and horn-ridden pronk. Yessir, we be deep in oddball territory here. ' - Bad Acid Magazine 'Off-kilter rhythms, a propensity to shoot off in unexpected musical directions and a travelling carnival sense of the bizarre, this baffling concoction of ideas defies pigeonholing.' - rock midgets.com 'A grotesque, unsettling oddity, this dadaesque fever dream of an album has 'potential cult hit' daubed across it's flanks in florescent orange paint, a collision of freeform jazz, progressive rock, funk, folk, country, alt rock and experimental poetry, brought together with playful abandon.' - Robert Sayce planet-loud.com "A Hardboiled musical treasure" - ORGAN "Deceptively phenomenal musical talent" - Pixeldelica "One of the most exciting new bands around London." - Sean O "a symphonic audio-fairground ride" - Big Jeff On Sludge& Tripe, Perhaps Contraption, Consist of Squire Squier (vocals, guitar, flute, clarinet) Dildo Window (drums, percussion, vocals) Pimi (goodgirls) Mayfair (Bass, vocals) Jack Attack (guitar on 5,7,9,10,12,16) Mathew Johnston (Bass, Vocals on 5, 7,9,10,12)
