A Haunted Tongue
- Brand: Colossal Squid
- Product Code: ColossalSquid–AHauntedTongue
Artist :
Colossal Squid
Label :
Wrong Speed Records
Format :
LP - Colored Vinyl
Condition :
New
Released :
2023
Genre :
Funk
Experimental
Nu Jazz
First press: Green vinyl. Limited to 300copies
A Haunted Tongue is the third album by Colossal Squid, the solo project of producer/virtuoso drummer Adam Betts (Goldie, Squarepusher, Melt Yourself Down, Jarvis Cocker). The first self-titled Colossal Squid album (2016) was intended by Betts as a way of exploring the process of creating music from purposefully limited tools (a drumkit and electronica) and finding a place where technology and live performance could happily meet. In comparison, the second album Swungert (2019) acted as a chance to see if the music written from that same process could be moulded (via collaboration and editing) into something more traditionally recognisable as a ‘song’. A Haunted Tongue moves things on one step further, letting the process and approach fade into the background, freeing Betts to balance a million inspirations (early 90s Warp, rave tapes, Nubian drumming, Indonesian gabba..) and filter them through an anything-goes punk aesthetic that results in a feeling of freedom that is both refreshing and rare.
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