Furfour

Grumbling Fur

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Grumbling Fur are the UK based duo of Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan.

Alexander Tucker’s solo releases on Thrill Jockey include ‘Third Mouth’ and ‘Dorwytch’. A prolific artist, his latest graphic novel, the acclaimed ‘World In The Force Field’, is out now via Breakdown Press.

Daniel O’Sullivan has been at the core of the wildly successful This Heat reconstitution and with Massimo Pupillo of Zu recently realised Laniakea. As part of Norwegian experimental collective Ulver he released the ‘ATGCLVLSSCAP’ album and later this year there’ll be a new album from Æthenor, his ongoing project with Steve Noble and Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))).

‘Furfour’ is the band’s second release on Thrill Jockey, with previous releases on Aurora Borealis and Latitudes alongside their last highly successful output on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation. ? On ‘Furfour’, Grumbling Fur are joined by This Heat’s Charles Bullen and Isobel Sollenberger from Bardo Pond. The band have also recently collaborated with Charlemagne Palestine.

‘Furfour’ gradually emerged over three years of writing and recording at 147 Tower Gardens, the mystical, ivy-shrouded house that Tucker and O’Sullivan once called home.

The band’s music is shaped all this are their long-standing shared musical affections, encompassing orchestrated poptones, collage, dub and beatmaking as well as experimental and drone elements – touchtones might include Faust, Arthur Russell, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Moondog, Michael Nyman, Gate, Syd Barrett, Stereolab, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Ashtray Navigations, CC Hennix and Madlib.

Album art by Mark Titchner, who also has works in the permanent collections of South London Gallery and the Tate Gallery. LP version is pressed on virgin vinyl and packaged with artworked inner sleeve and free digital download coupon.

The band will be touring throughout 2016 and 2017. They have been handpicked to play at Eastern Promises Glasgow by Alun Woodward from The Delgados.

“Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan hail from the experimental noise and black metal worlds, but together they make rich electronic pop that owes more to Brian Eno than to Sunn O))).” – Spin

“Prepare to be enchanted.” – The Wire

“Grumbling Fur largely inhabit their own wonderful world, dreaming up very old-school British psychedelia that hints at the rituals behind the privet and sigils on the parquet floors.” – Q Magazine

“One of the best new electronic bands in Britain.” – The Times

“Grumbling Fur soon make good on their pop pledge… the tunes haunt the mind long after they’ve faded.” – NME

“Tucker and O’Sullivan seasoning their cosmic mantras with such sweet tinctures as early Eno, This Heat and the acoustic mirror harmonies of early OMD.” – Mojo

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Track Listings

Strange The Friends
Acid Ali Khan
Heavy Days
Molten Familiar
Milky Light
Pyewacket’s Palace
Perfect Reader
Silent Plans / Black Egg
Golden Simon
Sapien Sapiens
Come Down And Watch Them
Suneaters

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