Messenger Girls Trio—rarely three, often four, here two—return with Genius Loop Duos, a frayed patchwork of sonic oddities that sounds like it was salvaged from the wreckage of a crashed satellite.
On this round, it’s core members Rob Millis and Dave Knott steering the barge, with occasional transmissions from fellow orbiters Jeffrey Taylor (Climax Golden Twins, Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand) and Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls).
The two long tracks function as a single, though messy, organism: mutating, folding in on itself, chewing its own limbs, then droning lullabies to the leftover parts. Guitars are plucked and bowed like they’re being interrogated.
Ukuleles show up uninvited. Chinese melodies sneak through. Electronics sputter. Mistakes are left in like scribbled notes in the margins, essential to understanding the complete and utterly confusing context. It’s disorienting in the best way: a looped labyrinth of improvised debris.
Due for release on May 2nd via Seattle-based Eiderdown Records (a name that already hints at the strange solace of weird sounds), this is a piece that never quite lets you settle, and doesn’t want to.
But amid the chaos, moments of clarity do emerge. Glimpses of beauty that vanish as quickly as they arrive. Genius Loop Duos is a hallucinogenic duet for the end of the world, and it fits in perfectly for the bedlam of our times.
Pre-order Genius Loop Duos by Messenger Girls Trio on Bandcamp here.
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