NIGHTLIFE MONTREAL
The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch – Improv Session (New Romance for Kids)
noise-punk
The title of this new record says it all: a straight-off-the-floor, live, improvised spazz jam taping, bound to both confuse long-time fans of this Montreal boho-punk quartet and surely excite the curious and/or uninitiated. Improv Session throws any preconceptions to the wind, speeding full barrel into free-jazzbo yelp territory, dub attack grooves, underground rock shout heaviness, tilted rhythms, space noodlings and guitar tweeting calls. This is a brave and bold move by these local scene veterans that will hopefully inspire and push contemporaries into new creative realms, regardless of public sentiment. (SG) 3.7/5
EXCLAIM
The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch
Improv Session
By Sam Sutherland
Montreal’s spastic noisemakers the Discord of a Forgotten Sketch are getting weirder. While their debut was a Daughters-inspired blast of mathematic screamo, their second full-length was a strange mix of jazz breaks, animalistic vocal acrobatics and a good dose of extreme sonic heaviness. The even more far-out Improv Session is just what the name implies: a long single take of the band letting free their most chromatic tendencies. Comparable to Black Flag's instrumental experimentation with twelve-tone technique, this is aggressive music at its most avant-garde, pushing the boundaries of what kids in camo shorts and flat brim hats are willing to tolerate. The result, however, is compelling. At the hands of more indulgent musicians, this could have turned out very differently, but the band know how to craft a compelling piece of music, filling each movement here with equals parts jazz, grind and all-out noise. (New Romance For Kids)
