Like Cartoon Vampires

Description

On Like Cartoon Vampires, their second album as The Convenience, New Orleans multi-instrumentalists Nick Corson and Duncan Troast embrace a hypnotic physicality and a collage- and improvisation-based approach to songwriting. The result is an avant-rock soundworld, punctuated by atonal guitars, angular rhythms, and screeching feedback, which may feel like a total reinvention after the sugary funk-pop of their 2021 debut Accelerator. Sessions were defined by nervous, improvisational jams, as they tinkered with tape loops, found sounds, and 808s, and shirked their devotion to groove for a haunting minimalism. Song after song, the pop sensibilities of Accelerator are swapped for more eccentric frontiers, with the common denominators of their first two albums being the duo’s mesmerizing, funky instincts and their masterful grasp of texture. For fans of Parquet Courts, Vampire Weekend, Spoon, Cate Le Bon, Cola, Video Age, Buzzcocks.