Bingo Fury’s noirish, furiously inventive music – marrying Scott Walker-esque balladry, poised jazz and agitated no-wave – has marked him amongst the UK avant-garde’s most exciting young voices. The multi-instrumentalist and madcap producer’s debut album Bats Feet For A Widow arrives February 16th via The state51 Conspiracy.
The album was recorded in a local church in Bristol and inspired by Fury’s tangled feelings towards his strong religious upbringing. We hear the old building everywhere amidst the rich jazz performances of his band: Meg Jenkins (bass), Henry Terrett (drums), Harry Furniss (cornet) and Rafi Cohen (guitar, glockenspiel, piano). We also hear tossed house keys, wine glasses and strange acousmatic experiments: all channelled into a powerfully cinematic, deeply romantic album. At its heart is Fury’s crooning bass vocal, lending a vivid and slyly humorous voice to universal themes of love and pain.
Bats Feet For A Widow is an album of extremity. In all respects – its sonic palette, strange experiments, obscure references, offbeat one-liners, heart-breaking sentimentality and surging creativity – it is astonishingly full. Fury duly ends it on a note of maximalism: “you know I’m trying to give you everything / It all gets in the way.”
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released February 16, 2024
Henry Terrett - Drums
Megan Jenkins - Bass
Rafi Cohen - Piano, Glockenspiel
Harry Furniss - Cornet
Bingo Fury - Guitar, Vocal
Joe Jones - Tape Manipulation
Peter Eason Daniels, Arthur Cross, Holly de Looze, Joe Jones, Bingo Fury, Henry Terrett, Rafi Cohen - House Keys
Produced by Bingo Fury & Joe Jones at Cotham Parish Church, Bristol
Engineered by Joe Jones
Mixed by Ali Chant & Bingo Fury at Playpen Studios
Mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering
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The great underlying instrumentation paired with Florence's droll stream of consciousness lyrics make this album stand out. It feels so personal and confessional. Favorite tracks are Strong Feelings and Leafy. I've heard Scratchard Lanyard on alt radio and love that one as well. tofupotpie
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