After an eventful year of touring throughout their native Australia – including runs with labelmates MONO and like-
minded pioneers Tortoise – and featuring alongside the work of artist
David Hockney at the National Gallery of Victoria, post-everything
quintet Tangents return with another album, and another stylistic
detour.
New Bodies continues Tangents’ rummage through countless varieties of
electronics, rock, dub, noise, and free improv jazz that defines the
group’s acclaimed aesthetic. The spacious dub of a plucked cello gives
way to a minimalist breakbeat tableau resting over rhythmic prepared
piano; a staid electronic groove is gradually absorbed into washes of
frenzied improv; staccato synths are woven into tumbling avant-rock; and
shimmering free drums phase over static loops of piano, guitar and
cello.
To quote FACT Magazine, “The quintet are so comfortable working with
jazz, folk music, post-rock and electronic music that it comfortably
hangs in a space between them all.” On New Bodies, that description
rings more intuitive and authentic than ever.
released June 15, 2018