Writhing Squares has lengthy been the duo of Kevin Nickles and Daniel Provenzano accompanied by a drum machine, each within the studio and dwell. However for his or her most up-to-date album, Mythology, they modified issues up a bit with a dwell drummer by bringing on board John Schoemaker. Embarking on a brief tour for the album, the band introduced alongside David Joachim to drum dwell. After a launch present of their hometown of Philadelphia (which you’ll watch on YouTube) the trio hit Tubby’s at full quantity. Most of their set hails from the aforementioned Mythology, plus “NFU” from Chart For the Answer and “Steely Eyed Missile Man” from Out of the Ether. There’s one thing ineffable in regards to the Writhing Squares sound, particularly of their pummeling dwell present. Whereas Chart For the Answer conjures The Operating Man with its dystopian Krautrock, Mythology is more durable to pin down. It wasn’t till their last track, a canopy, that I noticed what they had been channeling: the band leans in onerous to their prog roots with a heavy, vigorous tackle King Crimson’s “twenty first Century Schizoid Man.” There aren’t many bands that would pull off such a feat—all hail Writhing Squares!
I recorded this from our regular location at Tubby’s with a board feed from FOH, Will. As normally Tubby’s sounds nice underneath Will’s boardwork and this recording displays that. Take pleasure in!
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Writhing Squares
2024-04-27
Tubby's
Kingston, NYRecorded and produced by Eric PH for nyctaper.com
Soundboard (engineer: Will) + MBHO KA200N/603A > Naiant PFA >> Sound Gadgets MixPre-6 > WAV (24/48) > Adobe Audition CC + Izotope Ozone 5 > Audacity 2.4.2 > FLAC
Tracks [44:59]
01. Eternity
02. Barbarians
03. Acid Rain
04. Steely Eyed Missile Man
05. NFU
06. [tuning]
07. LEM
08. The Damned Factor
09. twenty first Century Schizoid Man [King Crimson]
