Staying put in Bristol with noisenik four-piece SCALPING. Comprised of Nick Berthoud (guitar), James Rushforth (bass), Alex Hill (electronics) and Isaac Jones (drums), the band have been around since 2017 and released their debut album Void at the tail end of April 2022.
The band's biography and music press reviews variously describes SCALPING as "heavy metal in 4D", "a modern, metal twist on Bristolian trip-hop" and "a corrosive river of noise that thrills and terrifies in equal measure".
My search for the Daddy G vs Robot Club remix of Emily Breeze, posted yesterday, led me down this particular rabbit hole as Grant Marshall and Stew Jackson also remixed Tether, track three on the album and released as a single to coincide.
The original version sounds in parts like a slowed down track by The Prodigy, with a menacing rap from Oakland, California-based artist DÆMON aka Jahsiri Asabi-Shakir. The remix strips the music right back and heightens the menace and wouldn't sound out of place on a latter-day Massive Attack album.
Tether was the first song that SCALPING ever recorded to feature vocals (a second closes the album) and it absolutely works.
The other track
on the Void Remixes EP is a remix of Flashforward by Anton Pearson of Brighton band Squid. The track comes on like a breakbeat Mogwai
(who previously remixed a song from 2021 EP Flood), with relentless
synth waves and snatches of guitar.
The Void Remixes EP is available on Bandcamp along with the original album and SCALPING's back catalogue. All worth a deeper dive.
SCALPING are playing live at the cross-city Ritual Union festival in Bristol on 25th March and various other locations in the UK throughout 2023.
I saw scalping supporting Working Men's Club in November - they certainly were LOUD!
ReplyDeleteI can imagine, Mike, my teeth were rattling from the bass just listening to this lot...!
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