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Body Man

by Expedient Self

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Professionally pressed and printed cassette tape. Shrink-wrapped.

    Features "Body Man" on A-side and "Fascist Game Show" on B-side, as well as cover image printed across the entirety of the tape's O-card cover. The cassette tape itself is dark blue.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Body Man via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Chairs, Body Man, and The Present. , and , .

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"Honestly, I love a good 'proof-of-concept' tape. The kind that is purposely put in cardboard instead of the norelco, left with only a singular “cassingle” level message to bear that belts out across a C15. And Expedient Self has managed that without too much trouble on the Body Man/Facist Game Show quickie we have here today. The Brighton, UK based one-piece is just noodling with guitars, yet seems to have quickly grabbed attention with a keen ear towards a balance of melody and noisy that would fit at the local farmer’s market during the witching hour. Sonically, it’s not too far removed from a twisted Astral Spirits release or Kevin Levine’s glass-shards style playing that brought noir aesthetics to PiL eons ago.

Side A’s Body Man twists and turns with detuned, jazzy guitar slinkery. A motif, what I’ll refer to as a consistent pang, pops like one of ‘em cartoon characters whose eyes just went all AWOOGA on another hot cartoon character. It never leaves the fray, yet Expedient Self is quick to layer it on top of cantankerous noise, warm overdubs, and multi-layered strings that quickly become a murderous cacophony. It’s twisted yet sugary, suggesingt a timeline not too far removed from those early days when you could buy Factory Records out of the back of a car (or so I’m told). Side B’s Facist Game Show continues the finger picking odyssey, but is more content to stretch itself out and just see what happens when feedback is introduced. Throw the chap a fiver, won’t you?" - Matty McPherson, Tabs Out, January 20, 2022

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released August 6, 2021

Photo credit: Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas/Pexels

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Expedient Self Brighton, UK

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