{"product_id":"curbside-lambsear-put-rings-on-all-my-fingers-to-weigh-down-my-hands-lp","title":"Curbside Lambsear - Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrucial listening if you're into Still House Plants, caroline, Tara Clerkin Trio, Moonshake or even This Heat, London-based duo Curbside Lambsear's debut upsets the foundations of post-rock, slowcore, noise and folky prog by adroitly integrating electronics and studio techniques; there's songs in there, but there's far more going on than that.\n\nMade up of caroline violinist Magdalena McLean and The Umlauts' Annabelle Mödlinger, both Austrians who found themselves in London, Curbside Lambsear arrive fully formed. Best friends, they met while studying in Vienna before properly connecting years later when they were moving in the same musical circles. They were both motivated by London's unstuffy experimental pop scene, particularly Mica Levi and their acolytes, but also obsessed with fringe post-rock like Tarwater and Duster, so they decided to develop something far enough away from their regular ensembles that they could work on a signature sound. Indeed, the EP emerges from a course of experimentation when McLean and Mödlinger decided to adapt on the go, fixing a sound while they learned new instruments, shared poems and voice notes and getting themselves comfortable with the process of working in a DAW. Where this might have lead to a sequence of demos, McLean and Mödlinger were confident enough and skilled enough to rustle up one of the best post-rock EPs we've heard in a while.\n\nThe chugging, processed guitars and loping drums of opener 'No Ordinary Word' might lock into the capital's underground family tree at first, down the line that gave us Dome, Disco Inferno and Bark Psychosis, but McClean's effortlessly cool, insouciant vocal delivery puts it alongside gear from Tirzah or Raisa K. And on the keyboard mashed 'Jjochstubn', the duo spend a good four minutes pulling apart the traces of a song; \"the winter takes it all,\" McClean hums, the voice timestretched across crooked, slowed-down drums and buzzing A\/C on-the-fritz soundscapes. Even when the tempo picks up, the smoke doesn't fully clear - Curbside Lambsear thankfully don't seem particularly interested in clean sounds. Best of all is 'Avril', where McClean's casual words are dropped over euphoric noise, hyper-compressed drums and feedback forming what might as well be a pop song.\n\nBrilliant stuff, beginning to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2148439799\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/curbsidelambsear.bandcamp.com\/album\/put-rings-on-all-my-fingers-to-weigh-down-my-hands\"\u003ePut Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands Curbside Lambsear\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Scenic Route Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49690448986371,"sku":"SR032","price":5589.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a3958720462_10.jpg?v=1790205098","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/curbside-lambsear-put-rings-on-all-my-fingers-to-weigh-down-my-hands-lp","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}