Badwan/Coxon – Boiling Point/Promise Land

Description

Lengthy two-track collaboration between The Horrors’ Faris Badwan and John Coxon of Spiritualized/Spring Heel Jack/Treader fame, which finds a perfect midpoint between the crepuscular aesthetics of the former and more improvisatory instincts of the latter. Coxon has an incredible ear for texture and tone, and the guitar playing here, provided by Badwan, is gnarled and bruising, an ideal foil for his hallucinatory growl. The ten-minute long Boiling Point pulses and grinds to an unresolved climax like Metal Box-era PIL and you could easily envisage it spiralling on forever more in some other universe. Promise Land, though shorter, is somehow looser, more unhinged, Coxon’s free jazz interests running in tandem with Badwan’s autodidactic instincts. A great 12″, the kind you don’t hear too often anymore. Let’s hope there’s more to come…