I’ve been seeing this group pop up on my feeds for a few weeks now and finally gave them a listen. I’m glad I didn’t sleep on them too long, good stuff! Glad to see some more interesting math rock pop up.
Their outlandish garbs and the unconventional instrument setup worked amazingly for them, particularly with the KEXP performance showcasing all of that. Who would’ve expected microtonal instrumental looped math-rock get any popularity otherwise.
Kinda reminds me of Hans Reichel’s situation, among other artists: ‘Yuxo’ sounds alright, but is greatly enhanced by the knowledge that it’s an actual acoustic instrument producing all those sounds.
Also, I’m posting math-rock occasionally: e.g. UneXpect’s ‘In a Flesh Aquarium’ or Needle Play’s ‘Death by Dying’, though these aren’t quite new.
I’ll have to go back and watch that KEXP set. I’m pretty sure that’s the video that made them blow up recently. I could see a lot of overlap with the King Gizzard fan base.
They’ve apparently been touring Canada and possibly other countries through 2024-25, but the KEXP vid definitely made them famous internationally.
That’s a new album? Can’t hear it now, are there any differences in two songs that were already on Vol.1?
You probably mean ‘Fabienk’ and ‘Mata Zyklek’. But they weren’t on ‘Vol. 1’, they were rather released on YouTube ahead of this album, and were available on this Bandcamp page while the album was in preorder, which is I think since the KEXP gig at the latest — where both tracks were included too (and also ‘Sarniezz’).
All in all, AdP don’t strike me as a band that vary the music in the same tracks between different performances, at least not considerably. Shit’s complicated as it is. Although I have trouble hearing the four simultaneous overdub guitar parts, so may be missing something.
