Dum Evol [Pink Vinyl]

Moon Attendant - Dum Evol [Pink Vinyl]

Pink color vinyl version. Brighton's Moon Attendant team up with Go! Team's leader and drummer Ian Parton for new LP Dum Evol. Following their debut One Last Summer with this incendiary, heart-pounding, drum-led masterwork full of untutored surf-guitar, Scarlet Rivera style fiddle, psychedelic orchestration and sharp-playful lyrics, all within just over 30 thrilling minutes. Since their debut, Paul Blewett and Nick Holton had been knee-deep in experimental music and needed something or someone to smash the shit out of the new songs. Instead of making heavier music, the result left lofty but wobbly structures teetering on fractured Giacometti-like frames, exposed, more arresting. Paring back the Musical palette from previous wash of synths and reverb to surf guitars, Moog, and violin, leaving Blewett's vocal (often compared to Colin Bunstone) leaning into an unvarnished, direct sound like Jimmy Campbell. Thematically, Dum Evol turns inward. Where their debut asked questions, this record sits with the answers, exploring love, conflict, and growth as experiences that must be lived first hand. Their lyrics get under the skin and under The Establishment in a wistful worm like way. Nudging at the truths. Smiling but always ready to bare some fangs. The fantastic instinctive violinist, Roger Proctor, joined as fourth member, bringing raw fragile beauty to "Look The Other Way" and "Difficult Ifficult," blending swooping string lines with the monster-surfing-Sonic Youth racket elsewhere. Dum Evol's restraint allows the band's more experimental instincts to land with greater weight. Musically, the record occupies a space somewhere between the slacker-rock nonchalance of Pavement and the gypsy swagger of Dylan -- "desire" through a lens that is consciously, almost defiantly, English. It's a sound that channels the 60's pastoral folk tradition alongside the sharp-edge of The Auteurs, an honest version of England, one to be proud of, existing in stark contrast to the hollow jingoistic nationalism of flag-shaggers climbing lamp posts. Jagged, lived-in, and entirely vital, Dum Evol is a record that feels fully realized, yet remains dangerously built to unravel in a hair's breadth. A1. The Sounders A2. Victor Noir A3. Look The Other Way A4. Dum Evol A5. My Favourite Fear B1. Difficult Ifficult B2. STFD B3. Those Velvet Eyes B4. Tonight We Fight B5. Voyage Into Darkness