chalaque

Staying with noise niking loveliness as recommended by those dudes at clear spot, this one comes as a limited 300 only 7 inch and features Mancunian Nick Mitchell under his alter ego Chalaque doing good bad things with guitars. These two cuts were recorded live earlier this year – in March in case your taking notes – at the Helderberg house in Albany, NY – the aptly titled ‘helderberg howl’ is just totally wired stuff with Mitchell found channelling some weird freaked and fried skittish blues variant which amid the distortion and riff shrieks we swear we hear a boogified Beefheart submerged by a wall of Bill Horist styled frazzled sound and with that one for the purists or of course goes with saying Wire readers. Over on the flip ’FTW’ belches amid a cacophony of jig-sawing scraping riffola, its busy, its brutal and its bludgeoned blues albeit as though turning left of centre at the crossroads and veering fast towards late 80’s New Zealand, bruce russell fans will no doubt admire. http://www.chalaque.bandcamp.com/music