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Glasswerk Exclusive: Phall Fatale – Sugar Drops

• 13th Jan 2016

Want to have your mind turned inside out today? Welcome to the bizarre and brilliant sound of Phall Fatale – we’re exclusively streaming a track from their brand new record ‘Moonlit Bang Bang’ released Friday 15th January 2016 on Slowfoot Records.

You can stream ‘Sugar Drops’ in full below, a frantic and tense first glimpse at an album of almost staggering variety and scope – it’s not often we could reference System of A Down alongside Portishead, Micachu and the Shapes or Neneh Cherry, but we just did, so stick that in your pipe and give it a good lungful.

The second album by Phall Fatale shouldn’t really work: to be post-punk in spirit whilst displaying such maddening and scattergun virtuosity seems a contradiction. A perfect storm of technical prowess crashing headlong with a firm ripping up of the rulebook, this is music that thinks and moves outside of the box. In fact, it’s chopped the box up into little bits and set fire to it.

Contemporary post-punk? Avant pop? Leftfield vocal jazz, of a kind that features no brass – or even, in the commonly understood sense, solos? A kind of alt R’n’B that makes alt R’n’B sound like Rihanna?

We don’t even really know what’s going on any more but we do know that we really, really like it, and, in a week where we’ve lost one of music’s most revolutionary and visionary experimenters, we like to think that a band like Phall Fatale would have made Uncle Dave smile like a Cheshire Cat.

Check out the track here: