Fox Millions Duo - Lost Time (Thrill Jockey) 2015
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The drums, the drums, the never-ending drums. Greg Fox and Kid Millions have joined forces in a percussive duo set on pummelling the bejesus out of time itself across two extended 20-minute pieces on this LP release. Side one’s cacophonous barrage is “Telegy/Time Lapse” on which polyrhythmic patterns weave throughout electronic squawking at a ferocious intensity before a swift disintegration and filthy distortion bleeds through cracks in the sound like malevolent tar leaking out of an open wound. It brings to mind what might have happened had the duo Kieran Hebden maintained with much-missed Steve Reid been suddenly joined by Rashied Ali for a full-on free skronk onslaught. Side two’s “Post-Encounter Effect” is a slightly more straightforward alt-rock piece resembling Sunburned Hand of the Man jamming through The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Well worth blasting your summer sinuses with.