quimper

must admit to enjoying these little dreamy distractions from Quimper, latest to the listening list ‘little legs for little eggs’ might well be the spaciest and most minimal to date. There was a sense over the last handful of releases, that Quimper was emerging into the light of pop radiance, though it appears here that there’s been an abrupt return to the shadowy hidey hole wherein contentment of playing peek a boo is abound. Four tracks found within, aside cut to a similar sonic cloth as though a family of ghostly sister sirens, display the kind of off centred playfulness and delectable strangeness that sits perfectly on the much-missed Soft Bodies spectrum. At once eerie and ethereal, certainly out of focus and somewhat out there, Quimper weaves a dizzy musical palette airbrushed in both the amorphous and the abstract with these mosaics seemingly tapping into the dream consciousness. Opener ‘Thomas egg has little legs’ instils an unsettling charm that’s woozily toned to a partly creepy lullaby motif while ‘shrike’ takes you further down the weird ear rabbit hole into airless dream states, the imagery and sounds blurred in a beautifully shape shifting dissolving haze. ‘cut below the knee’ revisits opener ‘Thomas egg has little eggs’ wrapping it in a tripping noir phrased carousel spooked with a camatosing glazing of night terror visitations. However, all said, for us at least, best moment arrives with the parting title track apparition, a macabre ghost light that had we not known better, might well have suspected had sneaked from underneath the spectral cloak of EMA’s bewitching ‘#horror’ soundtrack. https://quimper.bandcamp.com/album/little-legs-for-little-eggs