This is Jim Whites debut solo album, which of course means it's not the American Folk singer Jim White but the Dirty Three, Xylouris White drum legend.
The album opens with Curtains that has a furious diverse drum pattern playing, over under and around a keyboard part that is minimally unobtrusive as the scattered percussion batters it.
Percussion Build sounds like a drum school exercise, only they want you to drum like a cross between Elvin Jones and Mani Neumaier.
Marketplace has almost classical synths being given a good bashing by the tribal meets avant garde drumming. Soft Material has lush key tones with hanging bells chiming in the breeze.
St Francis Place Set-Up adds some tambourine to the extant drum extrusions. Uncoverup seems to be dismantling the drums while they are being played it's oddly disconcerting.
Walking The Block is a march in quickstep off to some dreadful ending, I was almost expecting someone to start shouting Walking the mile walking the green mile during it.
Jully is clearly on his mind, tonal shifting keyboards softly impart meaning to the shuffling beats.
Long Assemblage is of course the only tune over three and a half minutes long on the album, cymbals create the bedrock for the mallets to do there work as sparsely as possible, as this is all about the cymbals, almost a masterclass in sound tracking an array of cymbals.
The albums main single Names Make The Name works on deepening the feelings inculcated by the deep bass tones, as brushes feel like sandpaper softly sanding the skins against the longest mellowest keyboard tone they could find revolutions of weird calls to the hinterlands.
No/Know Now is a slight piece that re-works some of Moe Tuckers Heroin intro into an altogether brighter piece.
Stationary Figure is ensnared in a statuesque staring contest. The album concludes with Here Comes some distorting tones rather than harvest buns or the sun, as he takes a cosmic tones approach to ending the album.
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