All In The Game

Description

The Moreish Idols have carved out a unique position on the burgeoning London scene. While their early tracks showcased a restless, jerky, angular, and rhythmically driven sound, influenced by energetic post-punk, their second EP revealed a completely different side of the band. This evolution saw them assemble a freer constellation of ideas, blending hypnotic tremolo guitars, piquant melodic puzzles, erudite saxophone improvisations, and flexible rhythms. Music that sometimes evokes Pavement's Watery, Domestic era, sometimes the bucolic Canterbury scene, but always, always true to the essence of the Moreish Idols. All In The Game is imbued with Dan Carey's eccentric production ideas, largely inspired by the concept of time. For the title track, Carey asked Humphreys to play the same saxophone part at different tempos, recorded onto tape itself moving at different speeds. He also suggested splitting one of the demos into two parts: the first becoming the opening track Ambergrin, and the second, Time's Wasting, a slower, less saturated outro designed to evoke the memory of the first. A nod to their first EP Float - which can be played in a continuous loop - the return of this track in a more ethereal and ghostly form illustrates how ideas, stories, and observations evolve through memory.