MASATO TANAKA / POCKET GALLOWS – Split LP

Description

Masato Tanaka are really weird: they’re like a kinda screamo band but with loads of 50s-sounding hokey keyboard. I’m not into the more conventional hardcore-y bits but I love the keyboards! It’s utterly bizarre. Pocket Gallows are all over the pace stylistically, each of their three songs being quite different, gioing from frenzied mathcore to ambient to sludgey slow-mo doom. This is definitely a record for folk who appreciate schizophrenic sounds, and comes in a really smart screeprinted sleeve with cool inserts. Worth a punt.