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Highsigh – Once Bend
['Robert Barry', 'Matthew Horton']
The Quietus
A supergroup of sorts, featuriung members of Jobs, Skeleton and Deerhoof, make a wild freeform sound collage with just enough bright flashes of melody to hold it all together<a href="https://highsigh.bandcamp.com/album/once-bend">Once Bend by HIGHSIGH</a>Highsigh like to stretch definitions.
In the studio, they’re about pushing the boundaries of what we might call ‘pop’; on paper, they test the meaning of ‘supergroup’.
It’s a dense mix of exploratory musical backgrounds and usually sounds like it too.
‘Once Bend’ brings to mind another couple of pop experimentalists.
All this messing about with country-garden sound collage sounds increasingly like ‘Revolution 9’ as it unfurls.