One for the bedroom bound freakers today, the debut LP from New Orleans’ Urq. The band comes from the mind of the man behind Spllit and W-9, an art-damaged solo stint that lets him stretch out on scooped lo-fi pop, bringing to mind GBV’s compact chaos, jitter punks from MX80 to Devo stretching back to prog godfathers Gong in their rumpled glory. First single “Another Mystery” finds no comfortable purchase, no slump to settle into. It’s hackled and hinged, banging bent guitar lines into blindfolded origami shapes and thrusting them through Urq’s trusty 4-track for aesthetics. The band’s debut comes coursing out of the always stellar lineup over at Exploding in Sound. The new album, This Dismal Village, is out April 24th from EIS.
