RESTOCK ARRIVING EARLY FEBRUARY
First vinyl showing for Peter Blundell's post-Mosquitos outfit Split Apex, a duo in which he's also joined by guitar player/percussionist, Jussi Palmusaari, and sees the pair take the inspired anti-rock thesis of that parent band into further deconstructed, sub-bass territories. The self-released debut cassette from last year was a well-defined first shot across the bow and made quick sense of what the group were about, drawing on the varying minimalist and anti-formalist experiments of This Heat, Robert Ashley and The Shadow Ring. Playing true to its title, Thoughts in 3D expands that vision further, bringing Blundell's vocal more to the fore and wrapping and warping his portentous lyrics around blasted bass rumblings, cavernous electronics and psychoactive digital hiss in a way that feels both excessively post-apocalyptic and subaquatic, as if a communique from the uninhabitable expanse of a waterworld dystopia. Which in short means real deal post-end times sound excavation that, for all its foreboding threat, at least suggests there's the possibility of life after the disaster.
FFO: Mosquitoes, CIA Debutante, Germ Lattice, Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing, This Heat, The Shadow Ring/Kye
