Exclusivo ad absurdum: Stream Instrumental (Adj.)’s New EP

Dave Tremblay
Premieres
Australia's musical scene seems to know no bounds, and, thanks to the talents and efforts of people like Lachlan of Art as Catharsis, they are spread to the outside world. Case in point: I have the pleasure of introducing you to the entirety of Reductio ad absurdum, the upcoming EP from Sydney trio Instrumental (Adj.). The three have made quite a few waves on the Internet when they released their surprising and fresh debut A Series of Disagreements. It was short, but it overflowed with clever musical ideas and precise execution. It was jazzy, progressive, aggressive, mathematical, and, most of all, I couldn't get enough of listening to it.

Can This Even Be Called Music? 苦しみ (Kurushimi)

Dave Tremblay
Listen To This!
The Southern hemisphere's island-continent of Australia has lately been the unholiest of breeding grounds for music, and the label Art as Catharsis has been hand-picking the most beautifully hideous flowers for years to make an ever-growing bouquet of the most obscene kind. They deal with all sorts of music, mostly metal - post-metal, drone, shoegaze, black metal, you name it - and jazz, but always with an experimental twist to it, and often blending various styles and blurring the lines between the genres. Most recently, I've come to absolutely love it through bands like Instrumental (adj.), Dumbsaint, Serious Beak, We Lost the Sea and, today's topic, Kurushimi.