If we could turn back time and then name bands that should be on the IRS label, Brooklyn's The Planes would be high on the list. They have an ability to be straight ahead and yet wonderfully obtuse. Sounding Post Punk one minute, yet 90s Rock the next. An ability to be noisy, but then follow it with something so Indie Rock.
If I was to choose my favourite of the six songs, it would be the magnificent Cliff Diver, noisy as hell, but built on a groove, a little Psych, yet stunning avant garde heaviness. But that would be an arrangement that perfectly fits what I listen to away from me.
Tear The World Apart fits more tastes, a hypnotic riff matched by a driving bass. Great Post Punk that breaks into a 90s Rock chorus. This is the band at their most accessible. Radio Summer runs it close though with its UK Indie C86 vibe.
Sleep / Gash is beautifully arranged, a little Radiohead like perhaps. The beauty of this quartet is that they can be incredibly inventive on the like of The Box, but change direction into something less chaotic and frantic. This isn't something for the Pop Kids, more something to blow your mind.
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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