Pheromoans and Kilynn Lunsford w/ more TBA - 6th July

THE PHEROMOANS 
The Pheromoans are tenants of an unruly domain. Over the last 18 years the group have evolved from garage rock primitivists to auteurs of their own curious sound; a frothy brew of loose electronics, refractory rock and humdrum musing. Their songs are mutable, capricious, unreliable narrations, often withholding as much as they reveal. Russell Walker's understated vocal has always been the band's unifying focus, it is wry, unsparing and wilfully honest. Walker's lyrics are an observational tour de force, sometimes droll, yet often tipping over into unlikely pathos. With previous releases on Upset The Rhythm, Convulsive and Alter, 2024 will witness The Pheromoans return with lucky album number 13, entitled 'Wyrd Psearch' (out March 1st on Upset The Rhythm).

KILYNN LUNSFORD
As if Britney Spears’ Blackout was reimagined by Throbbing Gristle, Lunsford’s debut straddles unclear boundaries between electro-pop, post-punk and the avant-garde; it delves into those liminal spaces between pop culture and experimentalism, between city and country, between verse and chorus.

Custodians Of Human Succession is Lunsford’s first work since the dissolution of her former project, noise-punk outfit Taiwan Housing Project in 2021. 

Inspired by her longtime love of collage, and an “exquisite corpse approach to photography”, Lunsford and chief collaborator Don Bruno developed a DIY recording style the two jokingly referred to as “Fluid Fidelity”: We would record things very flatly”, explains Lunsford, “ with cheap broken gear and off-time rhythms, sounds with no reverb or sense of space – almost like an auditory hallucination – and combine that with high-end preamps and high-end mics, so that my voice is out front almost to the point of being disembodied from the music.”.

Embellishing this collage, more ornately still, are Lunsford’s caustic lyrics, packed as they are with a potent blood-stream of unflinching surrealism and discomfiting satire.

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