Latest from the long-standing project of NZ musician Stefan Neville sees Pumice expand into a two-piece with the aid of multi-instrumentalist, Jade Farley. Table is an album that could fit into a handful of amorphous and not very generous genre distinctions (lo-fi/outsider folk/drone), with its droning organs and violins punctuated with bursts of song.
More specifically, it’s an LP that would appeal to fans of Alistair Galbraith or Richard Youngs’ latest releases, or something that sounds as though mid-90s Smog was joined by Henry Flynt, or if the social realism of Australian groups like Kitchen’s Floor or VIPP was something a little more abstract and obtuse.
-Mitch