Our Brother The Native — Tooth and Claw

Tooth and Claw starts off as a chaotic muddle of sound with bird sounds, noise, off kilter guitars, and odd vocals.  As the album goes on it grows into a beautiful swan, though still a little shaky on the swimming tranquily, but never the less enchanting.

Our brother the native mix folky woodland vibe, hand claps and earthy percussion. Noise and a trunk load of strange samples from bird sounds, to weird kid’s voices, Odd singing and one of the singers sound eerily like Dose one of Anticon fame. All of this makes for intriguing, if sometime frustrating listening, they suddenly stop, or throw in a samples that sticks out like a sour thumb, but somehow this is makes the material more endearing.

They also managed to squeezes out some quite heart aching lovely music in-between their audio walkabouts. Nautical Sprits- Welcome Aquarium marries gentle guitar strums, wind chime tapings, child talking samples, with what sounds like a cello weaving the 'chick cracking from egg' gentle melodies in and out of the surrounding sounds, all in all making a beautiful audio concoction, that’s oddly sweet. Nautilidae  incorporates  ‘wake up or drift asleep’ piano march along with dreamy vocals and stringed instrument swinging in and out of audio focus , as if some is moving around the room playing them, it truly  does have a captivating sleepy air to the whole track.

An enjoyable and charming, audio canvas, that’s often puzzling and muddled. This been there debut it’ll be interesting to see where they develop into next.