Watererer’s latest release is an exercise in pure improvisation.
Spontaneity plays a role in all of Watererer’s albums, but it’s the central tenet of their latest, EM Stealth Sound New Geometry Hippocampal Ice and Space (Watererer again wins the award for Band Whose Album Titles Most Resemble A Dictionary With Darts Thrown At It), a series of improvised tracks overdubbed with vocals, synths, and additional percussion. “William Henry Butter Fox Tally Talbot,” which sounds like the name of a cartoon British nobleman who hunts foxes with a sneer on his face, but is actually a play on William Henry Fox Talbot–a British (correct there) scientist instrumental to the invention of photography–shakes its hips along to PJ Roduta’s strutting drums, Matt Aelmore’s groovy bass, and David Bernabo’s glammed-up guitars. This is a Watererer dance party, though, so it of course includes mathy drum breaks, shrieked interjections, and dollops of abstract expressionist vibraphone. A funk track refracted through an oddball prism, cut into pieces, scribbled on, and taped back together.
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