- On recent Hemlock 12-inches, from Bruce and Parris, reduced shells of bass stood in for club bangers. Tear Up The Club / Watton Res, Untold's first EP in more than two years, presents similarly worn-down fragments. The A-side's title, "Tear The Club Up," is a ruse. The track itself seems fragile, rarely forming into a solid shape. Scuffed percussion clings onto the grid and a ticking clock keeps time. Jet-stream synths spray until they turn into vapour. Yet "Tear Up The Club" has a brutal undercurrent. After a breakdown where strummed strings and piano chords shimmer briefly, waves of sub-bass flood the low-end.
"Watton Res" begins with gaseous tones, Balearic guitar and wing-flutter percussion. About 90 seconds in, these gentle sounds are cast in shadow. A gong initiates a key change: the guitar notes wobble, the drums get more active. The B-side has a slightly firmer outline, but it mostly seems close to collapse. That's largely because the drum sounds hang loosely together, at points polyrhythmic while the hand percussion slips and stumbles. Like the A-side, its disorder has lots of fresh ideas, many too transient to hold onto for long.
トラックリストA Tear Up The Club
B Watton Res