With all the subtlety of a peacock in a pigeon coop The Troubled Times return with a new album, dominated by the squeals of tortured amps and seriously tormented drums.
The Troubled Times also play live this month – in Wellington, at the Pyramid Club on 28 September!
Boa features inadvertent post-rock gliding that crashes and bursts into jagged flames; some kind of illicit NZ spaghetti pizza western folds in on itself to become a fractalized polaroid of a dessicated lizard.
This tendency toward excess doesn’t preclude the odd lapse into a mumbled ad hoc song or 2 but the focus here seems to be on ‘loud’, ‘fucked’ and ‘intense’.
The poor bloody neighbours…
Tape version available at troubledtimestapes.bandcamp.com
credits
released September 4, 2024
David Heath– drums
Dave Edwards- bass/loops
voc, harmonica and clarinet (trk 3)
drums (trks 4 and 6)
Antony Milton– guitar/vocs
Recorded in Antony’s chilly dusty garage 2023/2024
Tracklist
| 1. | All Around Us 16:21 |
| 2. | Big World (Roll Around) 04:48 |
| 3. | Non-Sequiturs 04:28 |
| 4. | Kauri Shine 07:30 |
| 5. | Boa 07:19 |
| 6. | Racing 02:32 |
Further listening
Boa is the second album this year by The Troubled Times, following June’s freeform noise/folk detour The Latest Poll:
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