NEW NOISE
PUPIL SLICER
With a name like that, it’s hardly gonna be smooth jazz. Meet the Londoners tearing up the underground with their savage grind/math sounds
WORDS: DOM LAWSON • PICTURE: ANDY FORD
Pupil Slicer: more than meets the eye
THEIR NAME MAY make you do a bit of a sick in your mouth and their music is utterly fucking terrifying, but Pupil Slicer have gone and created the most exciting debut album in living memory. The London-based trio only formed three years ago, and almost by accident, as vocalist/guitarist Kate Davies explains.
“At first, it was all just a bit of fun. I just wrote some horrible death metal riffs that didn’t fit with the band we were in at the time,” she explains. “We really weren’t spending a whole lot of time writing stuff, but then the original vocalist quit, and me and Josh [Andrews, drums] thought, ‘Now we have this project with a funny name and we’re getting offered loads of gigs for it, so what do we do now?’ We thought about the music we like, and with us it’s Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge and Rolo Tomassi, those kinds of bands. We figured we can basically write whatever we like and give it a shot.”