Kunst - Kunst (2017)

This collaborative effort between John Cunnane (aka dgoHn) and Jodey Kendrick is a clanging, fidgety album sure to excite sample-maniacs and beat-freaks. Built largely on found and processed sounds, Kunst veers between skittish breakbeat, ambient explorations and eerie almost-electronica. At times the powerful, muscular drumming and insistent thrust of the synthesisers recalls Battles, while the playful approach to rhythm and textures evokes early FaltyDL. Elsewhere there is shades of new-age experimentalism to tracks like the warping, beatless ‘First Crack’ and ‘Ah, If Fry, Um’. Kunst is an album that keeps one guessing, but also always keen to hear what is coming around the corner.