Church Andrews & Matt Davies - Tilt Church Andrews & Matt Davies

Church Andrews & Matt Davies first full length album released on vinyl. Other releases include, Yucca (2024), Axis (2022), Pollen (2021), Neighbours (2020).

Church Andrews and Matt Davies return with Tilt, a pinpoint collection of skewed microtonal and discordant compositions for percussion and digital synth.

Tones ascend but don’t resolve, rhythms loop, collapse and reassemble, patterns wriggle with geometric precision, sounds tilt, the edges fray.

Kinetic, elastic, wonky without being obtuse, Church Andrews (aka Kirk Barley) and Matt Davies new LP Tilt is the culmination of six years of creative collaboration, refining and redrawing the relationship between Davies’ virtuoso percussive practice and Barley’s off-kilter synthesis.

Where their 2024 release Yucca, took rhythmic cues from the Fibonacci sequence, Tilt explores a more intuitive approach, returning the duo to a minimal sound interrogating the interplay of chance and control, system and body, freedom and mechanisation. Featuring prepared guitar, finely resonant muted percussion and a crisp palette of digital synths, it draws on the pair's long-standing interest in alternate time signatures.

Tilt represents Church Andrews and Matt Davies’ ongoing collaboration in its purest form - a hyper-defined evocation of gravitational potential in their live sound. Watch them live here recorded for FACT mag and more recently live sessions of tracks from Yucca. They will also be doing a mini tour in May.

“Plenty of artists have tried to capture the energy of experimental electronic music and augment it with organic, live drums, but few have achieved such coarsely textured results” Boomkat