{"product_id":"writhing-squares-mythology","title":"WRITHING SQUARES - Mythology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Indies Only Limited Edition Green Vinyl. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn many ways, the music of \u003cstrong\u003eWrithing Squares\u003c\/strong\u003e could have only originated in Philadelphia; the city itself is a microcosm of creatives, go-getters, freaks \u0026amp; weirdos that have coalesced into a supportive \u0026amp; boundary-pushing crew. Former Purling Hiss bassist \u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Provenzano\u003c\/strong\u003e \u0026amp; \u003cstrong\u003eEcstatic Vision\u003c\/strong\u003e sax-player \u0026amp; vocalist Kevin Nickles’ first musical missive as Writhing Squares was shot forth from this community in 2013 (the self-released CDR “\u003cem\u003eLive In Space\u003c\/em\u003e”) \u0026amp; various singles, split releases, albums (and a double-album) later we arrive at the duo’s fourth full-length “\u003cem\u003eMythology\u003c\/em\u003e”, their third for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMythology\u003c\/em\u003e” picks up the pieces left shattered by their previous double album “\u003cem\u003eChart For The Solution\u003c\/em\u003e” and reconnects the broken shards together like Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese technique for mending broken ceramics, infusing the breaks with powdered gold. The Squares themselves are like mad scientists, taking the ruined detritus populating junk shops \u0026amp; surplus outlets \u0026amp; constructing their own sonic laboratories in their New Jersey basements to record, mix \u0026amp; tweak “\u003cem\u003eMythology\u003c\/em\u003e”s eight tracks. Their new location allowed the band to regroup, reassess \u0026amp; reconstruct their sound from the ground up, shearing away the cosmic excess of 2021’s “\u003cem\u003eChart For The Solution\u003c\/em\u003e” to a sharper point.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracks like ‘\u003cem\u003eBarbarians’ \u0026amp; ‘LEM\u003c\/em\u003e’ are classic Squares; brutal, aggressive, unwavering assault of Motorhead\/Stooges-inflected sci-fi punk scree, while others like ‘\u003cem\u003eChromatophage\u003c\/em\u003e’s mutant funk \u0026amp; ‘\u003cem\u003eCerberus\u003c\/em\u003e’s techno-slink owe a serious debt to electric-era Miles Davis \u0026amp; show that the group has more to offer than bludgeoning you with sonic force. \u003cem\u003eProvenzano\u003c\/em\u003e’s bass \u0026amp; electronics are like a tank rolling across the terrain - a gnarly construct of Hawkwindian headiness \u0026amp; ‘\u003cem\u003eVincebus Eruptum\u003c\/em\u003e’s snarl - uncaring of what gets in the way. Nickles’ brass vacillates between Stooges-influenced sleaze, jazzy no-wave stabs, \u0026amp; cacophonous sonic storms, strafing the listener into oblivion. 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