‘VF Blue’ by Muzzle Tung
Exclusive video premiere of ‘VF Blue’ by weirdo pop collective Muzzle Tung.
‘Gannet’ is the second LP by Salt Lake City noise-pop torchbearers Muzzle Tung. Sounding like Skip Spence fronting Deerhunter, ‘Gannet’ finds the band at a moment of clarity – a subtle turning towards the light of embracing sunny compositions, tighter song structures while conceptually and lyrically wading through the bizarre and, frankly, psychedelic experience of living in a city so dedicated to order yet hosting a healthy community of freaks, anarchists and rabble-rousers that set the city’s blood to boil.
The core team of Muzzle Tung is compose of Geoffrey Leonard and Karley Parker on synthesizer and guitar respectively and sharing vocal responsibilities. Since 2016, Muzzle Tung has expanded and contracted in relation to the horizontal structure of the band. On ‘Gannet’, the songwriting force of Leonard / Parker is on full display with Dyana Durfee (Foster Body) and Seth Pulver (Seven Feathers Rainwater) rounding out the lineup. Crafting subtle hooks around surrealist imagery and ringing through syrupy synthesizers, kraut grooves and churning post-punk guitar work, these songs are littered with pop Easter Eggs that make sly nods to The Beach Boys (‘VF Blue’), Velvet Underground (‘Heroin’ / ‘The Sun’s a Bad Boy’) and NEU! (‘Lost in the Passion’) as well as angular contemporaries Deerhoof and Palm.
‘Gannet’ comes with a four part web series called ‘Technicians’ featuring the band interfacing with a mysterious alien entity and uploading their consciousness into a retro-futurist neural net. The result is high stakes Macula Dog style absurdist storytelling.
This home-video approach to large-screen story telling is at the heart of Muzzle Tung’s high concept pop filtered through the obscure lens of the auteur. It’s a trip.
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