Drahla - angeltape (April 5, 2024)

This year, Drahla make their long-awaited return with their astounding second record angeltape. It’s an offering that was not only interesting for the Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists to make, but offers an intriguing world for audiences to explore with a similar curiosity that informed the songwriting process. This inclination to eschew conventional melodic structures and embrace uncertainty across their latest material gives fans an unfiltered insight into a challenging transitional period the band found themselves in following the release of their 2019 critically acclaimed debut, Useless Coordinates.

Tracklist

1. Under the glass
2. Default Parody
   
3. zig-zag
4. Second Rhythm
5. Talking Radiance
6. Concrete Lily
7. Lipsync
8. A
9. Venus
10. Grief in phantasia

 

Been meaning to check them out for a while, this new album seems a good place to start. Only a couple of tracks in, but this is sounding really good so far. Sucker for a bit of skronky sax in my post punk/art rock.