Sly & The Family Drone Moon Is Doom Backwards Vinyl LP 'Glistening Green' Eco Mix Colour 2024

1. Glistening Benevolence
2. Going In
3. Cuban Funeral Sandwich
4. Joyless Austere Post-war Biscuits
5. The Relentless Veneration of Bees
6. Guilty Splinters
7. Ankle Length Gloves

The album is a patient, stalking, lurking thing. A properly noir thing, as notable for its long stretches of quiet atmosphere as it is for its pummeling skronk. Sly's is a strange sort of quietude, though. A 'drums heard through the wall', 'disquieting electrical hum' kind of quiet. An 'eavesdropping PI', 'solo sax on rooftop' sort of quiet. An attention-grabbing kind of quiet so engrossing that, when our fave neo-jazz wrecking crew actually gets to wrecking - and they still wreck real good - we're caught off-guard, wrong-footed, defenseless. We get run the hell over by The Family Drone's quintet of bulldozers.