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CONQUERING ANIMAL SOUND EP launch from avant-pop experimenters, before a new album next year
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G iddy, cacophonic, experimental – the music of Conquering Animal Sound is all-over-the-shop pop, in the best way. The Glasgow duo (Anneke Kampman and Jamie Scott, who also perform as solo artists ANAKANAK and MC Almond Milk) return in October with their first new material in a year and a half, the EP Talking Shapes, recorded at Kinning Park Complex in Glasgow. It’s a blissfully wonky, shapeshifting exploration four new songs of clicks, claps, primary school recorders, harps, abstracted hip hop beats and Kampman’s distinct stop-starty, cooing-then- mechanical vocal.
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But for all the layers of playfulness and form- bending, there is a growing undercurrent of ideas to ponder – this time musical languages, gender, genetic coding and family, feminism, and, er, football.
‘There’s a subtle feminist dimension to this track [‘Puskas’]’ explains Kampman. ‘I used football references as a way of liberating myself from instruction. Football is a game; it has rules. Gender is also a game; it also has rules. I’m eager to break out of patterns that people fall into within music, specifically relating to gender. Women almost always have submissive roles in music practice, especially in the pop music industry. They tend to be passive when it comes to taking control of certain aspects of music creation, and it has always been important to Jamie and me that it’s a conversation, an equal process.’ (Claire Sawers) Stereo, Glasgow, Fri 3 Oct; Summerhall, Edinburgh, Sat 4 Oct. Talking Shapes is out on Chemikal Underground, Mon 6 Oct, conqueringanimalsound.co.uk
HITLIST THE BEST ROCK, POP, JAZZ & FOLK
✽ Moon Hop Raverendum A referendum-night party brought to you
by members of Neu! Reekie!, FOUND and the resident Moon Hop DJs – inviting you ‘to dance off the tension to the best record collection in Scotland, possibly even the Union’. Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Thu 18 Sep.
✽ LuckyMe x The Art School Very special record label night for GSA’s Freshers’ Week, with Eclair Fifi, the Blessings and S-Type. See feature, page 20. School of Art, Glasgow, Fri 19 Sep.
✽ Speculum Orum Otherworldly operatic requiem for piano and voice from singer,
pianist and composer M Lamar, influenced by black American gospel music and negro spirituals. Part of Arika, Episode 6: see preview, page 96. Tramway, Glasgow, Sat 27 Sep.
✽ Oui Love A French-Mexican answer to AlunaGeorge,
singer Andrea Balency joins experimental rockers NLF3 at this French-flavoured night. Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Thu 2 Oct.
✽ FKA Twigs The artist FKA Twigs is now known as a
2014 Mercury prize favourite – see our Exposure of Gloucestershire’s avant-pop diamond, page 71. Òran Mór, Glasgow, Mon 6 Oct.
✽ Pleasance Sessions A ten-day feast of brewed-in-Scotland beer, music, comedy and spoken word. Remember Remember, the Twilight Sad, LAW and the Phantom Band are all playing, plus there’s The List’s night with Ubre Blanca, Prehistoric Friends, Two Wings and TYCI DJs. See feature, page 21. Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, Thu 9–Sat 18 Oct.
✽ Eagulls Post-punk quintet from Leeds with gothy, anguished vibes. See preview, page 16. Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh, Fri 10 Oct; King Tut’s, Glasgow, Tue 21 Oct.
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