GIDDY SKELTER/VINYLE JAUNE

Description

Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse have spent years creating thoughtful and unpredictable art, whether musically as Jeanne d'Arc or Spa Moans, or under their own names as writers and visual artists. On Giddy Skelter, their first album under the name "Tim Kinsella and Jenny Pulse," they once again take an unexpected turn, but aim for something more direct. They have created a swirling mix of past-future, future-past, sorta-rock, collage-rock, born from the confined anxiety of the pandemic. It is a feature-length work undeniably of its moment, rich in musical references while radiating a visionary path forward. To assemble Giddy Skelter, Kinsella and Pulse aggressively curated their tracklist until they had 11 lean and punchy songs, unlike anything either musician has released before. The opening track "Unblock Obstacles" chains together a three-chord riff and double drums before venturing into a hypnotic drone filled with commentary that channels My Bloody Valentine before Loveless. "Over and Over" imagines a world where Slowdive or Lush collaborated with Prefuse 73. On "Nena," one minute features classical piano loops, followed by a psychedelic drone in the style of Spacemen 3 and contemporary R&B. The majority of the songs on Giddy Skelter showcase Pulse's fiery and ethereal voice, giving the music a distinctly feminine connotation. Sometimes, what makes good rock n' roll is the ineffable and the intangible, something you can only describe as chemistry; other times, it’s the rigors of the process. On Kinsella and Pulse's Giddy Skelter, it’s both – and it sounds like nothing else you will hear this year.