Tangents - Timeslips & ChimerasTangents artfully mix acoustic instruments and electronics in pieces that combine improvisation with careful processing. At their best, they bring to mind Can, Tortoise, Four Tet, and the Necks. Pitchfork. Tangents formed in Sydney in 2010 and released their debut album I in 2013, a recording of their first ever meeting and live show. Follow up albums Stateless (2016) and New Bodies (2018), and linked singles and EPs, explored a style of post produced

but it was so much more than that

with the their earlier math rock predilections yielding to the tightly wound club-banging pedalboard trickery that defined their sophomore album

It was released by V2 on 8 March 1999

imaginative playing pushes Vague Tidings beyond the singer-songwriter genre into something richer in texture

a distortion-soaked battle cry for hope and beauty in a world of darkness and doubt

Trees planted in neat rows

a 20-person choir and 17 songs overlaid with a compositional score written by Washington

Produced and recorded by Ripley Johnson and mixed by Chris Cohen (Captured Tracks

Available on purple vinyl

If Minus The Bear were looking to make pop music without any of its major-scale bubblegum trappings

a true testament to its staying power

This is deeply emotional and soulful jazz – termed Black Liberation Music by band members – created with passion and purpose by masters of the artform