The Stumps - Dry eyed twitch (Cycle)
Diagnosis... Don't! CDR-EP, 2006
" Is it possible to stick three better motherfuckers together in one band? Ok, maybe, but none the less this trio is pretty damned tight... voila, here are The Stumps... Stephen Clover (Seht), Antony Milton (The Nether Dawn, Mrtyu, Black Boned Angel, PsudoArcana...) and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Gate, the Dead C, Black Boned Angel...). These good sorts stayed at my house during a recent tour of Melbourne which ripped the arse out of every venue they played. And as with Seht, why not release a 3" in honour of their visit? So here we have 'Dry Eyed Twitch (cycle)'. Noisy, droning, psyched out bliss. Hail!"
- Diagnosis... Don't! website
What they said...
"Pretty much impossible to imagine a more star studded NZ free rock band than this. Sure Mr. Kneale's absent, as are a Russell and a Morely, but shit this trio is already bursting at the seams and ready to blow. The Stumps, the trio of which we happen to be speaking, is made up of equal parts Antony Milton, James Kirk and Stephen Clover. Holy shit is right (that is what you were thinking, right?)! Three tracks, nineteen minutes. Total transcendental free noise drone rock bliss!! The opening track is nine minutes of deeeeeeeep dreamy drone. Distant melodies smeared into fuzzy clouds, occasional bursts of distorted guitar muted and stretched apart into shimmery drones, a final build into a thick wall of white noise whir, high end peals and crumbling feedback. The second track is a full on rock jam, a stumbling Dead C like groove, lurching through a dense swirl of fuzzy synths, grinding guitars and squealing feedback. A killer slab of off kilter, drone drenched psych rock. The final track falls somewhere between the first two, droney and abstract, but with fuzzy bass, and jagged streaks of psychguitar, thick swirls of cymbal sizzle, and distant squalls of guitar freakout."
"Eerie, melancholy classic-NZ downer zone from a virtual supergroup [...] In cool shrunken black sleeve with obi strip."
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