How To Swim - Genesis P and Me/From Here to Dundee Slash Eternity

For anyone whose knowledge of avant-garde industrial pioneers is rusty, Genesis P-Orridge was the artist/singer from Throbbing Gristle who, with his late wife Lady Jaye, challenged gender identities and become a self-styled “Pandrogyne”. What all this has to do with Glaswegian jazz-pop eleven-piece How to Swim is a mystery, aside from further evidencing their unorthodox style that in the past has sometimes lacked focus but here shines with demented inventiveness. From Here To Dundee Slash Eternity is even more surprising by virtue of its relative straightforwardness - an impassioned epic that shows they’ve more to offer than the occasional odd-prog curio. [Chris Buckle]