Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull The RopePull the Rope, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine, casts the Eno Williams and Max Grunhardled outfit in a new light. The hope, joy, and sexiness of their music remain, but, further honing the edge of their acclaimed 2022 album Electricity, the connection they aim to foster has shifted venues from the sunny buoyancy of a sunlit festival to a sweat soaked, all night dance club. Williams and Grunhard attribute this shift to a matter of collaborators,

the folk revival had all but ended

simplicity

half of the total copies will be autographed by Linda/double disc set with 4 additional tracks/Black Vinyl

although not particularly complex

The songs themselves are much the same mixture of adrenalised swagger and high-tensile funk as ever

The twin-guitar attack of songwriters and founders Glenn Mercer and Bill Million is still at the core of the group‰۪s infectious sound

and percussion

For certain the record sounds and feels 80s through and through

then the Occult Architecture of Moon Duo‰۪s fourth album - a psychedelic opus in two separate volumes released in 2017 is an intricately woven hymn to the invisible structures found in the cycle of seasons and the journey of day into night

Naná Vasconcelos

When you’re terrified of dying

spooky -monumental "space of a second"