It’s been a while since Edinburgh-based Bearsuit Records unleashed their last salvo of experimental oddness into the world, but in discovering the curious experimental pop of Bunny & the Electric Horsemen, they’ve come up trumps yet again.
Bunny may hail from Glasgow, but ‘Fall Apart’ has the hallmark quirkiness more common to acts that come out of – and often remain in – Japan. The intriguing experience begins with ‘Moth Poets’, which displays post-rock leanings in its ethereal, chiming instrumentation, before unexpectedly exploding into a burst of noise that definitely isn’t your typical post-rock crescendo.
From hereon in, the journey takes a definite turn for the strange, with moments of sonorous ambience and soundtrack music filtered through a drugged-out haze, and with off-kilter melodies, warped guitars and unusual changes of direction occurring at the most curious of moments. ‘Chikyi Wa Mawaru’ takes the squiggly weirdness to another level, a chilled-out pop song half-buried beneath with woozy synths and backing vocals courtesy of the Smurfs. Or something.
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An air of sedate tranquillity emanates from the softly swaying woodwind-led ‘Singing Ringing Tree’, while more wibbly wobbly weirdness saturates ‘Pomorski’. The quietly droney ‘Quel Vino e Generoso (Addio Alla Madre)’ and an alternative version of ‘Chikyi Wa Mawaru’ round off an alluringly odd album.
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