Pardans Spit & Image

Vinyl LP pressing. Explosive from the outset, the band let their intentions known on opening track "Burning House Bedding". Intense and cohesive instrumentals play question and answer with frontman Gustav Berntsen's exasperated vocals, chopping, changing, and creating a wonderfully disjointed atmosphere from their unconventional set-up, which includes a tenor saxophone, piano and viola. From lead single "(Hookers With) Hidden Depths", with it's infectious bass line and sax hook that sounds like a twisted soundtrack to a '40s Noir film set in a smoky New York jazz café, through to "When Come The Rats", a menacing and heavy eruption of beats and riffs, the album is a 13-track collection of fascinating explorations into melody and rhythm that defy the norm.