Monk’s latest selection is something a little bit extra special as it comes from one of the (less than a) handful of who sing in their beautiful native language of Welsh. ‘Cuddio Tu Ôl Y Llen’ (which translates into heathen English as ‘Hiding Behind The Curtain’) is the lead track to be lifted from the Cardiff-based sextet’s upcoming second album, ‘Y Dwylo Uwchben’.
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To say that twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor are fascinated, obsessed if not haunted by death, and are wrapped up in its darkly cold embrace, would perhaps be the singular biggest understatement of the year so far, as the latest album from this Canadian darkened shoegaze/post-punk drone project is all about the subject – not in the macabre, violent, or outrageous sense, but as you or I might know it: a spectre lurking around the corner, capricious, indiscriminate, unexpected, ordinary, and all the more terrifying for it.
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Guitarist John Sykes has died at the age of 65, following a battle with cancer.
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The Scottish proggies have emerged from the studio after a five-year absence, with a new album due to be released in the second half of March. They gave us the first taste of what to expect at the tail end of last year, and now add another piece to the musical mosaic with this second course.
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Right from the outset Monk has to state his business (sic) and admit that, having once dubbed them “one of the Titanic Trio of the three worst thrash bands on the island of Ireland”, this Belfast-based “war jazz” trio are one of those bands he loved to hate, and hated to love, but now loves to love – and this totally brilliant slice of audio-visual lunacy emphasizes his gradual change in affections for the beys.
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