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CrackedanklesRecords are proud to present Polypores “Wrigglers” - the latest emergence from Stephen James Buckley’s strange and overgrown brainforest, an artist who has seen recent albums crack the national top 40 charts. From the opening bars of lead single ‘Memespawn’, it is clear that this incendiary release is going to defy all precedent Polypores releases. Kicking off with a heady mix of woozy, slewed melody lines and a relentless Motorik beat, it soon breaks down into a gritty instrumental redux and a frenetic syncopated woodwind jazzathon before bursting out again into spine-tingling melody that resembles some deformed cousin of synth-pop. It’s beautifully melodic, whilst still maintaining Buckley’s trademark sense of the chaotic and the downright wonky. Endlessly listenable electronic music that breathes and moves like a physical organism, and always refuses to stand still. A restless misfit of an artist who inhabits the fringes of whatever scenes he inhabits, Buckley maintains a certain crackling unease throughout the whole thing, but it results in jubilant outbursts and freewheeling joy, tethered only by the mechanical constraints of the machines it’s wrought from, like some broken robots have cobbled together an orchestra and they’re writing a soundtrack for a film they haven’t seen.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: I'm a massive Polypores fan. I love the music, love the vibe and the trajectory, and I love the musician, so i'm probably not best placed to comment. That being said, i'm contractually obliged to so i'll tell you without haste, this is the most beautifully strange and wonderfully wonky brain-melting electronic music that has ever been. It's majestic, beautiful and terrifying. Absolute dynamite.

TRACK LISTING

1.Memespawn
2.Wrigglers
3.Troublebath
4.Naut
5.Alice Drums
6.Puzzles
7.A Thinking Thing
8.Cranial Escape
9.Primordia