Taken from their latest album Tonebeds for Poetry (reviewed here), Stick in the Wheel have shared an accompanying video (by ZEROH.NET) for the opening track Long the Day.
In his review, Thomas Blake compares the album to their brilliant 2020 release Hold Fast, stating: Tonebeds For Poetry casts the net even wider if that’s possible. Here the form, as well as the content, is unexpected: the album is presented as a mixtape. In this way, they toy with the idea of musical lineages. It’s not so much a renunciation of pigeonholes as a celebration of otherness. They recognise that the vernacular of the city and of contemporary urban musical forms is as valid a tradition as any of the more widely accepted varieties of folk music.
And the content backs up the form: a shimmer of Ian Carter’s guitar and Nicola Kearey’s autotune-enhanced, part-spoken vocals position the opener Long The Day somewhere between Flotus-era Lambchop and the hypnagogic avant-pop of Dean Blunt.
Stick In The Wheel…continue to be one of the most groundbreaking and unpredictable acts in any of the countless genres they move between.
Tonebeds for Poetry is out now.
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