UK - dl/cd - self-released 2026
Perrenial pop-noise purveyors and Brighton UK-based trio of TJ Cottrell, jimwg and Karl M V Waugh present their latest six slices of cosmic/psyche/blart pie; their first since 2024's Ect and sure to hit the receptive nerve-endings of the most demanding gourmands.
Another Side Of Another Side hits like The Myrrors meets Eno & Byrne's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Optimum psyche vocals lacerate propulsive psycho-Surf guitar and a juicy, repetitive rhythm section. Are You Out Tonight begins with spiky skanking guitar and a monolithic bassline. Then goes on to pit Gang Of Four -style guitar against 1960s Tropicalia vocals to strafe your mind and your feet. Puts me in mind of early Here & Now almost. Imagine hearing this drifting over a meadow near a stone circle in the early 80s... Never Again features a staccato approach to snare drum performed with a vigour seldom seen this side of Drumbo's finer moments in The Magic Band. The pace slows down a bit with Irreversible; a weird amalgam of Parquet Courts and Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. A beautiful drone in the background that becomes clear at the end. In fact this and Never Again heard together could be read as a Wrong Côtes' protest song. "...the damage we have done...is irreversible..." Picking the knees up again forthwith the boys launch into Super K, an update on the Neu brand of motorik but with catchy vocals. Finally, Unhelpful takes the best new bass riff from VB's Henrik ''Benke'' Höckert's cryogenically frozen brane and slathers tape murk and lavishly overcompressed fx over the ending.
Peak dancefloor psyche - Wrong Côtes could sell this entire collection of tunes to The Oh Sees and buy a yacht with the proceeds.
