photo by Harry Mitchell
Available for free via their Facebook page, Breton‘s new five-track EP Blanket Rule feels like a return to their squat-party-playing days. The quintet – who live together at bretonLABS, where they also make video and doubtless other wacky stuff – throw dirty industrial bass, fizzing beats, scratchy vocals and regular changes of pace into an experimental cauldron, and emerge with a record that feels very underground, very visceral. It’s fast and thrilling, then slow and muttered; an antidote to fresh air, a soundtrack for painkiller days. A debut album, Other People’s Problems, is due later this year.
actually, with regards to Ratatat, they don’t actually use any samples. all the sounds they create themselves, including the bird sounds which are in fact Mike’s own parakeet.