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"Free entry! “Who is queering ska?” Editrix ask those bold, freakish questions through a barrage of proggy-post-hardcore fits and starts that’d give Fugazi and Sleater-Kinney new blisters. Plus Glasgow’s Moni Jitchell are just demented, totally Unsane."
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A gig held at Crofters Rights on Friday 2nd June. The event starts at 20:00.
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Editrix (Exploding In Sound) • www.editrix.bandcamp.com
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EDITRIX
Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) :
What exactly is “pop music” and why is it actually Editrix? Do not expect calcified recreations of pre-existing bands, even the ones Editrix loves. But if pop is anything to do with melody, well, prepare yourself to be singing along by the second line of each track. If it's defined by rhythm, warn your head not to get caught napping because it will shortly be banging. And if for you pop equals a full-on full-frequency sonic sickness, this one grabs your ears by the ear lapels and never lets go.
Why? Perhaps because Wendy Eisenberg is a genius. This we already knew from their solo work, intricate and delicate as an unexpectedly happened-upon wildflower. How then to emotionally, intellectuality, spiritually process the musical oxymoron that is Editrix? I don't simply refer to the clash of a sick power trio (Steve Cameron on bass, Josh Daniel on drums, Wendy on guitar) grinding against a vocal so exquisitely vulnerable that it intentionally destabilizes itself by starting melodies on the weaker "mi" instead of the stronger "do," never on the downbeat for help, nary a drop off reverb, and always with two Wendys singing at once to make any interpretive microdiscrepancies nakedly audible.
No, I mean a profound philosophical nonbinary, a music alienated from itself and all the more charming for being so...It is a rough-hewn yin-yang of good and evil that captures our late stage capitalist zeitgeist as blockbusteringly as Star Wars captured the good-obliterates-evil-as-long-as-we-spend-enough-money blissful ignorance of the pre-Reagan years.
Editrix is as if you took music that is borderline classical in its crystalline perfection and obsessive attention to detail, and then played it through Kurt Cobain's Rat pedal, with not a shred of piety or decorum. From the first slide guitar notes of the opening title track, this is doom-laden nihilism lovingly decorated in heart stickers. It is caring, pretending not to care, resisting the emotive signals so abused in mainstream, which is what tells you that it really does care. It is sweet and sour and spicy and salty and bitter and umami, and cooked using only homegrown local ingredients. It is the synthesis of the dialectic and the clarion call of the proletarian revolution.
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MONI JITCHELL
Moni jitchell are a two-piece hardcore band from Glasgow, comprised of vocalist and drummer Grant donaldson (also of civil elegies, ideal, and Ex-outblinker) and 12-string guitarist and bassist David scott (ex-thin privilege, ex-billy ray osiris, ex-in wrecks). Both minimalistic and feral, their Sound touches on the noisecore technicality of Botch, the punk fury of hirs collective, and the Mangled electronics and stripped-down weirdness Of melt banana.
‘Unreal’, the band’s first lp, was recorded by ross Mcgowan at glasgow’s chime studios across 2020 And 2021, at the same time as their debut ‘clear’ ep (Gold mold records, june 2022). While the band had Planned to recruit extra members when the first Songs were done, covid left them unable to fit Anyone else into their practice space. During this Period of enforced stasis, the pair honed their Live show, augmenting donaldson’s raw screams
And scott’s no wave guitar with dense backing Tracks and electronic additions.
Pitched between a mechanical reproduction of Their studio recordings and the intensity of Their live performance, moni jitchell’s drumless Configuration has already racked up shows with The likes of mclusky, extra life, unsane, part chimp, iceage, and thank.
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18+ event.
A Gravy Train & BLG presentation.
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More events:
www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk
www.linktr.ee/BLGPromotions
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Entry requirements:
Editrix (Exploding In Sound) • www.editrix.bandcamp.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
EDITRIX
Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) :
What exactly is “pop music” and why is it actually Editrix? Do not expect calcified recreations of pre-existing bands, even the ones Editrix loves. But if pop is anything to do with melody, well, prepare yourself to be singing along by the second line of each track. If it's defined by rhythm, warn your head not to get caught napping because it will shortly be banging. And if for you pop equals a full-on full-frequency sonic sickness, this one grabs your ears by the ear lapels and never lets go.
Why? Perhaps because Wendy Eisenberg is a genius. This we already knew from their solo work, intricate and delicate as an unexpectedly happened-upon wildflower. How then to emotionally, intellectuality, spiritually process the musical oxymoron that is Editrix? I don't simply refer to the clash of a sick power trio (Steve Cameron on bass, Josh Daniel on drums, Wendy on guitar) grinding against a vocal so exquisitely vulnerable that it intentionally destabilizes itself by starting melodies on the weaker "mi" instead of the stronger "do," never on the downbeat for help, nary a drop off reverb, and always with two Wendys singing at once to make any interpretive microdiscrepancies nakedly audible.
No, I mean a profound philosophical nonbinary, a music alienated from itself and all the more charming for being so...It is a rough-hewn yin-yang of good and evil that captures our late stage capitalist zeitgeist as blockbusteringly as Star Wars captured the good-obliterates-evil-as-long-as-we-spend-enough-money blissful ignorance of the pre-Reagan years.
Editrix is as if you took music that is borderline classical in its crystalline perfection and obsessive attention to detail, and then played it through Kurt Cobain's Rat pedal, with not a shred of piety or decorum. From the first slide guitar notes of the opening title track, this is doom-laden nihilism lovingly decorated in heart stickers. It is caring, pretending not to care, resisting the emotive signals so abused in mainstream, which is what tells you that it really does care. It is sweet and sour and spicy and salty and bitter and umami, and cooked using only homegrown local ingredients. It is the synthesis of the dialectic and the clarion call of the proletarian revolution.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
MONI JITCHELL
Moni jitchell are a two-piece hardcore band from Glasgow, comprised of vocalist and drummer Grant donaldson (also of civil elegies, ideal, and Ex-outblinker) and 12-string guitarist and bassist David scott (ex-thin privilege, ex-billy ray osiris, ex-in wrecks). Both minimalistic and feral, their Sound touches on the noisecore technicality of Botch, the punk fury of hirs collective, and the Mangled electronics and stripped-down weirdness Of melt banana.
‘Unreal’, the band’s first lp, was recorded by ross Mcgowan at glasgow’s chime studios across 2020 And 2021, at the same time as their debut ‘clear’ ep (Gold mold records, june 2022). While the band had Planned to recruit extra members when the first Songs were done, covid left them unable to fit Anyone else into their practice space. During this Period of enforced stasis, the pair honed their Live show, augmenting donaldson’s raw screams
And scott’s no wave guitar with dense backing Tracks and electronic additions.
Pitched between a mechanical reproduction of Their studio recordings and the intensity of Their live performance, moni jitchell’s drumless Configuration has already racked up shows with The likes of mclusky, extra life, unsane, part chimp, iceage, and thank.
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18+ event.
A Gravy Train & BLG presentation.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
More events:
www.gravytrainbristol.co.uk
www.linktr.ee/BLGPromotions
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Entry requirements:
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