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Australian band EXEK have signed to DFA Records and will release their seventh album, Prove The Mountains Move, on February 27 via the label. (Previous albums have been out via John Dwyer’s Castle Face, and W. 25th, home of Cindy Lee, among others). The album was produced by bandleader Albert Wolski, who says “I’m enjoying telling friends that EXEK have signed with DFA cos the response is invariably wow that’s fucking cool! And then I say just wait til you hear the new record.”
Prove the Mountains Move is a bit more melodic than previous EXEK records and Wolski says it was inspired by reconnecting with the world post-Covid lockdown. “Working on new music took a distant backseat to raging with friends,” he says. “And those parties were filled with big bangers as the soundtrack—stuff I didn’t really listen to on my own, stuff I hadn’t really encountered since my adolescence. But in the early hours of Sunday morning, ‘Alive’ by Pearl Jam sounds like you’re talking to God. And so does ‘All I Wanna Do’ by Sheryl Crow, and so does ‘Feel’ by Robbie Williams. Krautrock and dub were still in my DNA, but the music that I started to make was perhaps a little more lighthearted, and perhaps a bit more emotional.”
Wolski adds, ”Each song is a vignette into an abstract milieu, whether it’s an experimental chiropractic business at an airport, or scantily clad creatures made from dust at a food court. No matter how wacky, there’s themes and motifs throughout the record, both lyrical and musical, that mirror up and reflect each other throughout different songs.”
You can get a taste of all that right now with the album’s opening song, “Sidestepping.” Calling it “poppy” might not be the exact right word, but it is bright and hooky while still keeping EXEK’s motorik drone DNA intact. Listen below.
Prove The Mountains Move:
Sidestepping
You Have Been Blessed
Visiting Dust Bunnies
Arrivederic Back Pain
Don’t Answer (When They Call)
Tyres
Spotless
Chef’s Hat Renaissance
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