Alpha Maid - Is This a Queue [AD 93]

Format: 180g LP in printed sleeve.
CAT: WHYT097LP

If rumours are to be believed, Mica Levi protegé and collaborator Alpha Maid’s latest was a slow gestating affair, born from seemingly disparate places and times. Even so, it manages to create a cohesive yet remarkably varied atmosphere, even within the tracks themselves — “2 Numbers” is a prime example. If that was the aim. Moving between eerie, hypnotic, dark, and rough-hewn looped-up grooves, and a funk-tinged, guitar-driven interlude, the appearance of Manchester-based poet, writer, musician, and performer Leo Hermitt firmly solidifies Is This A Queue’s place in the murky ether of current British experimental sounds.

It’s one of several guest collaborations that include Maid’s usual circle of regulars — Valentina Magaletti, Coby Sey, Ben Vince. If you’re looking for something that could be described as weightless punk, distorted ambient, or trip-noise, we implore you to stay.