Wet Tuna – Party Phone EP

As the temps rise we enter the perfect climate for the glue-slick dub wonderlands worked up by Wet Tuna. Good news for all of us then that the band has a new EP set to melt the headphones into undulating pools of sweat. Just off a momentous return as MV & EE, Matt and Erika disembark the ark and head back into the swamps for Party Phone. The new EP features a heady roster of familiar names. Jim Bliss, as always is holding down the bass shudder, but this time the band invites Myriam Gendron for some vocal glaze. Samara Lubelski lends vox and violin, and Woods’ Jeremy Earl laces in some percussion. Marc Wolf (The Tower Recordings) aka Spanish Wolfman tweaks the atmospheres with some synth and sonics as well.

The EP perfectly encapsulates the current wave of Tuna. The post-Gubler years of the band have seen them dive headlong into the haze, divining the murk for the moment when the mind reaches a ripple of enlightenment via aural scrub. The beat poetics and silicone seance of bookends “Party In The House” push them as close as ever. Sandwiched between the double dose of house party hypnotics is the embryonic ache of “Electronic Zen,” and the dystopian shiver of “Rough Road,” rising like a siren song out of the fallout. The new EP is out now in digital glory and set to arrive on LP from UK label Feral Child Recordings. A CD version will be available direct from the bands own Child of Microtones.

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