NEW ALBUMS
SNAPPED ANKLES
Forest Of Your Problems
THE LEAF LABEL
7/10
Electronic post-punk from forest dwellers
Since their 2017 debut, this foliage-clad London outfit have made infectious records of electronic post-punk-funk rooted in concepts around ecology, politics and the ever-changing nature of our relationship to spaces. Here new characters The Business Imp, The Cornucopian, The Nemophile and The Protester emerge from the trees to join in. However, woodland concepts aside, the band are most arresting when knocking out groove-locked rhythms with bursts of spluttering electronics, as on “The Evidence” and “Rhythm Is Our Business”, the latter sounding like some madcap fusion between Devo and The Fall if they were trapped in a forest.