It feels like only last week that Radio Anorak played their debut gig. Back in the middle of last December the band first arrived on stage, supporting the New Eves, and then there was a second gig in January supporting Big Long Sun, both times joined by a handful of other musicians drawn from the two bands that they’ve supported. Fast forward to last week and a single, Sword of Moses, appeared without any prior announcements, or even any press to introduce the band, and now today, less than three months after they first appearance, and album has dropped. Rememberer was recorded over a number sessions in a cabin in Lewes – in just over half an hour it takes in drum breaks, field recordings, synthesisers, strings, found instruments and half sung poetry. It’s not quite like anything else – at it’s most energetic it stretches to Krautrock, but Mother Death (Father Beast) is beautiful folk, and other tracks are experimental art pieces or ideas recorded quickly before they evaporate.
You’re tuned to Radio Anorak. Don’t touch that dial.
Rememberer is out now to buy as a cassette or download at Bandcamp, or at the usual streaming services