Liars / Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta - How Many More Times / Feasting On My Heart 10""

like a supernatural creative collision where Burns and Poe trip with Bonham and Badalamenti

Single Review by Dave Kerr | 12 Mar 2007
Label: Fire
The latest instalment of the Keep Mother Series (dubbed Volume 4: G&H) sees Liars creep forth with the sounds of a jungle river, morphing into a sinister jazz tempo, before surrendering to an epic 11m49s assault on Led Zeppelin's How Many More Times. Their side of this vinyl captures an elusive vintage vibe too often lost in time, to the point that they mask their departure with the undertones of a skipping stylus and a stammering crash cymbal, as though they're attempting – Ouija boards out - to evoke the groove of Zep's late sticksman.

A delirious diatribe characterises Scottish street poet Gerry Mitchell's Feasting On My Heart, as he spouts hazy allusions to loss, misadventure and a "spectral pus," equating to a shotgun capture of the mystical and gritty qualities to his gothic timbre. Meanwhile, experimental folk collective Little Sparta pick and strum a foreboding backdrop to the ultimately masochistic satisfaction derived from the subterranean ambience set by this lament.

The sum of this package? It's like a supernatural creative collision where Burns and Poe trip with Bonham and Badalamenti. [Dave Kerr]
Release Date: Out now. http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=24045