Chthonic Glasgow figurehead Murray Collier (Grim Lusk) wears his charmingly shabby Dip Friso bonnet for a 5th release of textured downbeats including a superb Tirzah-esque turn with Still House Plants’ Jess HK amid more heathered mind-drift blooz and Wanda Group-like crankiness
Ushered under an eponymous title, ‘Dip Friso’ can be heard as the project’s definitive salvo after a couple of lowkey tapes and 2022’s excellent ‘Crocodile or Real?’, all via his Real Landscape label. The styles and patterns surely share a kinship with fellow Glasgow label 12th isle, but are distinguished by Dip Friso’s grubby fingerprints and hands-on approach that moulds and kerns his arrangements’ mixes of hardware with live instrumentation with guest vocals and a blend of folk craft into discreet techgnostic tekkerz.
No doubt opener ‘I’ll Get to Hiding’ is a proper standout, posing Jess HK’s slow and droll vocal delivery on plonging blues licks and screwed drums like Mica & Tirzah on a road trip along the North Coast 500 - trust this one will worm its way onto playlists everywhere. The EP’s other vocal cuts, ‘Thin Ayrshire’ featuring Hannan Jones and ‘Midnight’ also reprises that bucolic blooz lean at a more knackered slant, like pigbaby on quaaludes, whereas the rest is an endearingly scuzzy canvas for Collier’s textural collage, clipped grooves and modal whims; from the Nyabinghi-inflected psych-electro-dub of ‘The Conversation’, and briny bop ‘A Sorry Business’, to wrong-end-of-telescope perspective on wild Scottish panoramas in ‘Another Country’. Big one.
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Chthonic Glasgow figurehead Murray Collier (Grim Lusk) wears his charmingly shabby Dip Friso bonnet for a 5th release of textured downbeats including a superb Tirzah-esque turn with Still House Plants’ Jess HK amid more heathered mind-drift blooz and Wanda Group-like crankiness
Ushered under an eponymous title, ‘Dip Friso’ can be heard as the project’s definitive salvo after a couple of lowkey tapes and 2022’s excellent ‘Crocodile or Real?’, all via his Real Landscape label. The styles and patterns surely share a kinship with fellow Glasgow label 12th isle, but are distinguished by Dip Friso’s grubby fingerprints and hands-on approach that moulds and kerns his arrangements’ mixes of hardware with live instrumentation with guest vocals and a blend of folk craft into discreet techgnostic tekkerz.
No doubt opener ‘I’ll Get to Hiding’ is a proper standout, posing Jess HK’s slow and droll vocal delivery on plonging blues licks and screwed drums like Mica & Tirzah on a road trip along the North Coast 500 - trust this one will worm its way onto playlists everywhere. The EP’s other vocal cuts, ‘Thin Ayrshire’ featuring Hannan Jones and ‘Midnight’ also reprises that bucolic blooz lean at a more knackered slant, like pigbaby on quaaludes, whereas the rest is an endearingly scuzzy canvas for Collier’s textural collage, clipped grooves and modal whims; from the Nyabinghi-inflected psych-electro-dub of ‘The Conversation’, and briny bop ‘A Sorry Business’, to wrong-end-of-telescope perspective on wild Scottish panoramas in ‘Another Country’. Big one.