Spllit – Spllit Sides [Amite River Water Vinyl] – New LP

super cool debut LP from Spllit (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), synth punk and/or jagged kitchen pop, a robot and a bottle of pop jabbing at your face, some laser beam and bb gun shots at your feet, some cuts slow like a swim, others rapid firing, a little oddball and a lot of fun, “out-of-tune squier guitar, terrible lefty short bass, p-bass knockoff, KORG MS-20, egg shaker, rhythmtech studio shaker, glass and metal objects, drums, marimba..." really its own thing but perhaps at least partially inspired by minimalist bedroom synth pop as well as perhaps the sounds that surfaced from the underground in the late 1970s (likely before this lovable duo was born I assume), the more minimal and odd pop side of ZE Records, UK new wave, NYC no wave, and Ohio underground, Spllit kicking open the spring-loaded screen door from the kitchen to the backyard and fireflying the sounds out to the world…limited-edition color-vinyl first pressing. — winch

Somewhere out there, a new sound known as Next Level Music exists. The hot and humid Amite River basin of Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the unlikely, albeit natural inflection point for such a sound - created by a duo with a driving penchant for originality, known as SPLLIT. The story of Spllit begins with a fun challenge of sorts: to write and record split sides of an album in under a day's time. Enter Urq and Marance, and their arsenal of odd-shaped guitars, synthesizers, glass and metal percussive gadgets, marimbas, and so-on.
"Spllit Sides" slowly rises from a cacophony of tape splicing into clear and concrete Next Level Music. Like an acid tableaux vivant ~ a swirling sonic whirlwind of loose and odd time signatures come into play along with the occasional pop sensibility. Originality remains key in Spllit's formula, but let's establish some sonic kinship - maybe a Devolved, Deep South version of The Flying Lizards. Or a deep fried Eno sitting in with The Magic Band. This Heat from a place that's actually hot and has quietly housed eccentrics like The Zoomers for decades.
Freaky shit from a fun(ky) new cloud. Spllit's first album features seven brand new cuts and a fresh coat of ether applied to their previous "Spllit Together" cassette, with a vibrant mastering job courtesy of Caufield Schnug (Sweeping Promises).

Spllit Sides comes packaged in a 20pt. reverse board sleeve with full color insert and download code.