Label: Polytechnic Youth
Citizen Input finds the Glasgow based ‘sci-fi music collective’ breaking free from the confines of their home recording set up. Now with a firmly established, expanded line up, the band set out to capture a more robust, energetic, fully realized live sound with local Italian producer Luigi Pasquini.
The 10” is underpinned by a series of mesmeric Moog grooves and propulsive Dinger-esque motorik beats. Waves of synth-driven turbulence, sampled hypnotic spoken word passages and lucid, often bittersweet melodies aim to transfix and bewilder the listener. The band cite heavy rotation from the likes of Michael Rother, Beak, Pye Corner Audio, John Carpenter and perhaps surprisingly, The Teardrop Explodes as the EP was in creative stages...