YEK KOO - Desolation Peak LP Re Issue Simultaneously sparser and more immediate

Simultaneously sparser and more immediate than 2017’s obliquely topical Step Into The Earthquake

the album actively engages the listener

both sonically and in spirit

and only a few 7-inch singles in the meantime

evocative piano of OKTOBER and PIA

YEK KOO - Desolation Peak LP Re Issue Simultaneously sparser and more immediateThe intimately confrontational vocal deconstructions rapping inside raw distortions of emotive gut on Desolation Peak owes something to East African ritual chants, which is not underestimate its illumination by the same electricity as A Handful Of Dust, Heather Leigh Murray, Jandek, or Gates Metric LP. Vocals multiply and fall back into themselves, guitars bloom like flowers of grit, the whole record collapses into groaning gleaming feedback. Edition