Video: Sextile, ‘Paradox’

Daiana Feuer on August 9th, 2018

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From 2015’s “A Thousand Hands,” which introduced Sextile‘s industrial take on post-punk, through last year’s “Albeit Living” and now onto EP “3,” the drums have gotten faster and more mechanized as machines have found their way into the band, replacing flesh with beats that recommend dancing your way through the chaotic discord of reality. Out Sept. 14 via Felte, the new EP is more synth-oriented, though electric guitar still finds some moments to squeal. The band, now a two-piece comprised of Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto, recorded the songs at their home and practice space using a KORG MS-10, a sequencer, a Fender Strat, a LinnDrum and percussion instruments. This noisy but minimal approach takes inspiration from writer Luigi Russolo’s “The Art of Noises,” a 1913 futurist manifesto that suggested dissonance and noise was a natural progression of music evolution beyond the perfection of pretty chords to evoke the “noise-sound” of the modern, industrialized world. Here’s a good quote to take away from Russolo (remember this is more than 100 years ago):

“The variety of noises is infinite. If today, when we have perhaps a thousand different machines, we can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, we will be able to distinguish ten, twenty, or thirty thousand different noises, not merely in a simply imitative way, but to combine them according to our imagination.”

||| Watch: “Paradox”