Parachute for Gordo describe themselves as ‘a Surrey/Hants based noisybastard instrumental rock band’, and it’s a fair enough summary. However, it fails to articulate their softer side, or their knack for mashing three or four songs into one. ‘Ten Metres Per Second Per Second’ is their second long-player and characterises their self-effacing humour, and presents a veritable smorgasbord of music that is, by their own admission, ‘by turns blissful and apocalyptic, serious and silly, complex and startlingly direct... the result of play and experimentation, short attention spans and an irreverent anarchic nature.’
‘Bandage of Scat’ launches things in curious style: a two-minute track that begins as a soothing, gentle acapella before exploding into a drum ’n’ bass frenzy. What to make of it? An omelette, is what: shouty punk and noodly post-rock played at double-speed collide on ‘I Offered You a Small Dog in the Kitchen’, while ‘10’000 Bay Leaves in a Koala Bears Mouth’ (sic) straddles the territories occupied by Explosions in the Sky and Shellac, a meandering, choppy, crescendo-centric assault. Yet for all of the jarring contrasts, everything hangs together pretty well, and there’s never a dull moment, even on the 16-minute closer, on which the band’s schizophrenic tendencies run riot.
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