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Handle: COLLIDE

Pitchfork·Shaad D’Souza·about 1 month ago
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The Manchester band Handle speak a different language than you or I: Their second album, COLLIDE , much like their fantastic 2020 debut, In Threes , builds its sentences from splats, crashes, clucks, clinks, whooshes, and thuds. Lead singer—or perhaps“chief yelper” or “head orator” would be more accurate—and synth player Leo Hermitt writes lyrics that split the difference between commands and incantations; bassist Giulio Erasmus fills the gap usually occupied by vocal melody with sparky fretless lines that pirouette and somersault through drummer Nirvana Heire’s fantastical rhythms. Handle owe a little to dance punk and a lot to no wave, but mostly when I listen to their music I imagine the dishwasher at some amazingly strange restaurant whacking on all the prep containers with ladles and fish spatulas after everyone else has gone home.…

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