Style: Abstract, Experimental Label: Cack Records
Absurdist
electronic provocateurs Wevie Stonder pride themselves on their
well-honed "Cack" aesthetic. So, with gleeful wrongness, they launch
their fourth album, The Bucket. Pitching their unique take on consumer
economics from the car boot of their own label Cack records, they've
cranked up a brimming pail of their irresistibly wonky sonic surrealism
from the wells of the collective unconscious. While their stint on Skam
records and a side project on Mouse on Mars's Sonig label have seen
them filed alongside whimsical leftfield electronica, Wevie take things
deeper and weirder, plundering the anarchic traditions of inspired
lunacy from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to Zappa. The Bucket teems with
ideas, garish chunks of musical kitsch and bizarre takes on musical
clichés, strapped together with elastic and string and backed by toy
pianos, broken trombones and rubber bands. Into these chaotic
soundscapes Wevie Stonder unleash their demented talent for surreal
comic invention. Bizarre characters, ludicrous situations, and streams
of free-association collide, only to bounce off on a tangent just
before you've had a chance to work them out. However you describe it,
if you listen closely you can hear Wevie moving in new directions,
creating a sound and style that is entirely their own.
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