Earth Ball - It's Yours (2024) [Hi-Res]

Roiling, honking no wave improvisations by Vancouver’s Earth Ball, mounting their first vinyl with a healthy dose of in-the-moment moxie and shred.

Hailing from Nanaimo, British Colombia, just over the water from Vancouver, Earth Ball’s Isabel Ford, John Brennan, Jeremy Van Wyck, Kellan Maclaughlin, Liam Murphy and pals play to an ends-of-the-earth sound comparable with the rackets of Dunedin’s Flying Nun lot as much as original NYC no wavers or the rowdiest, dextrous ends of the Norwegian experimental jazz scene - outré rock for the headstrong, in other words.

Their vinyl debut and first for London’s Upset The Rhythm captures the white hot heat of the band’s nose-to-tail improvised sound in six unflinching parts, getting into their stride with the shrieking horns underpinned by swaggering, fossil-fuelled bass groove on ‘Moon FM’, and ragging fearless heads between the nine minutes of sustained, swarming tumult to ‘Antifreeze’, right up to the exhaustive clatter and collapse of ‘Hollowgramma’. However, it’s not all nads out, as they make smart room for grungier groove in the jazzy drum fills that knit with wounded brass and Isabel’s prowling vox on ‘Through &Through’, a rare moment of respite along with the relative relief at the start of ‘A Need to Cool Down’, which soon enough erupts into full bore drive recalling bits of Cuntroaches.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Earth Ball - Moon FM (5:46)
1.02 - Earth Ball - Antifreeze (9:11)
1.03 - Earth Ball - Through & Through (5:59)
1.04 - Earth Ball - A Need to Cool Down (8:20)
1.05 - Earth Ball - Flash in the Pan (7:45)
1.06 - Earth Ball - Hollowgramma (5:35)