- Electro-funk
- Lo-fi
- Funk
- Outsider music
- Alternative dance
- DIY
- Electronic music
- Funk rock
Comment: The Hirundu (from Blackpool, the United Kingdom) is an oblique DIY/lo-fi act which is being underrated so far. They started creating music after seeing a Happy Mondays` show on TV in 1987. Later, at a time onward the combo would have been continuing as a one-man-project led by Johnny Crewdson. However, he has preserved the quality and quantity of The Hirundu by magnifying obsessively new stylistic slots and reshaping mental impact. As I said being underrated so far because they started creating bedroom-tinged psychedelic vanguardian pop a decade earlier than Ariel Pink, for instance. Both aforementioned artists used to reject the concept of time and any stylistic tags and a sustainable amount of humor within it. For the beginners I recommend listen to No Preservatives (1989), and Uneasy Listening (1994) which are stylistically quite different from one another yet related to one another by uncompromising zeal and experimental intent. One could listen to the discography through the artist`s own site Pitch And Putt and Bandcamp. To illustrate the project one can imagine as if Captain Beefheart, Bruce Haack, Jack Smith, Delia Derbyshire, Cabaret Voltaire, CAN, The Fall would have met at a remote crossroad for to start a brawl. Git Biscuits 2 is a 5-track part of the Biscuits trilogy either providing steeply broken funk (rock) with lulling feel or immersing in more synthetic, air-reduced and spasm-filled sequences as if doing away with clear-cut rhythm (although Johnny Crewdson does), however, the veiled rhythm oozing out of the structure propels it forward. Yeah, its greatness reminds of an exploratory branch of the 90s electronic music full of erratic playfulness and frantic aspiration. Last but not least – I was already unfortunately thinking of getting a year without any release by The Hirundu but at the very rear part of the last year there would be released an issue called Tantalus. In a word, keep going on by both sides.
