The new split/collaborative album by
Desert Island Dicks
&
Where Woodwose Walk
is out now
Clearance Sale, the new album from
Desert Island Dicks and
Where Woodwose Walk, sees the two noise groups reflecting on the ongoing global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s.
Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Train sounds,
Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come together for the first time in what critics are already calling "
Capitalist Realism in a disused arms factory".
The album is available from Amoebic Industries as pay-what-you-want digital download or CDr priced at £3 plus p&p. The two groups have pledged to make an accompanying follow-up album in the event of a double-dip recession.
Desert Island Dicks are an anonymous international plunderphonic noise collective. No-one is certain who is in the group nor even how many of them there are. Their 2009 album
The Shades of Jazz to Come was named in
Marina Rosenfeld and
Raz Mesinai's "Top 15 Albums of 2009" list in
The Wire.
Where Woodwose Walk is the one-man project of Brighton, UK resident Arran Jones. When not composing, he enjoys allotment gardening, snail collecting and incorrect music.
Amoebic Industries is a jenky DIY label based out of a Glasgow flat.
They have released records by
30KB,
Aurist and Desert Island Dicks.
(p&p for physical copies:
UK: +50p
EU: +£1.00
elsewhere: + £1.50)
