- Improvised music
- New Weird Britain
- Free folk
- Dada music
- Freeformfreakout
- Anti-folk
- Experimentalism
- Primitive music
- Weird folk
- Avant-garde
- Psychedelic
Comment: it is not the first and apparently will not be
the last entry of a combo related to such labels as Cozy Home Records, Daydream
Generation, and Quixodelic Records. All the three can be considered as staples
within the realm of home recorded ingenious music which frequently tend to stay
beyond definitive stylistic terms. External World is the duo of Judy Shimmin
and Rob Levy whose 15-notch issue is released from conventional pop music threads
of utmost extent. I guess someone might think it is negative album on account of
just wanting purposefully to counteract to the mainstream music. Such sort of
statement would be probably wrong because the result is somehow cohesive and
convincing despite of providing a shitloads of wired progressions and wild
turns and frantic dodges. More concretely, it involves tickled dialogues in
words, mind-boggling interactions between guitar playing, trance-y ethnic
drumming and amusing synchronised vocal deliveries pouring out of both channels
simultaneously. And all of these elements seem to be surfaced at ease. The starting
point is not important here as it is not the ending spot either – between
the listener could discern much free energy and delight of cooperation coming
out of those relatively short-running pieces. The more you listen to it the
more you could behold folk-based structure behind it. Firstly one might discern
chaos fuelled fractals which then stepwise begin to disappear to hold place for
more “logical” indications. In fact, the aforementioned improvised pieces and
lovely freakouts do variegate with emotively and aesthetically restrained
guitar twangs (Early Hours) or one could
enjoy calm moments where the birds are singing, cicadas are chirping, some
leaves fall spirally down accompanied by faint drumming. It sounds like a nice afternoon
on Sunday somewhere in the backyard. By lyrical side, it is similarly
imaginative and freely tripping as the sonic concept (for instance, We Must Go). In a word, listen to it to
get permitted to enter into a difference making portal.
