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Chromatic Perversion

by The Leg

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about

The Leg’s frenetic folk-punk gallop has never sounded so focused or at moments as liberated and as euphoric as on this latest opus.

Harnessing the driven mayhem of its quartet of predecessors - 8 Songs by the Leg, What Happened to the Shrunken Tina Turner?, An Eagle to Saturn and Oozing a Crepuscular Light – Chromatic Perversion is infused with a more upbeat and organic skip.

It’s as if messing with dark forces frolicking in the woods at midnight have given way to shafts of morning sun piercing through the trees.

Most of the time, anyway.

From the opening Radge Almond Mutches, Chromatic Perversion is the sound of getting your head together in the country, but not always liking what you find.

Beyond the drum-skitters and scrape of strings, a rustic old-world charm nevertheless pervades beyond the foreboding urgency of the likes of Impossible Colours, and on Trouble at The Centre of The Universe seems to dance a jig to life itself.

At the other end of the woods, shades of Nirvana by way of Black Sabbath seem to possess Those Dogs.

Coming out the other side, a cover of Moondog’s High on a Rocky Ledge melds the joie de vivre of The Move with the most manic string action this side of John Cale a la Venus in Furs.

'Chromatic Perversion finds the fleshed-out five-piece galloping through the record’s 10 songs with a frenetic abandon married to an appealing jauntiness that nevertheless retains The Leg’s mercurial edge of yore.' - The Herald

credits

released February 21, 2020

The Leg are Dan Mutch, Alun Scurlock, Pete Harvey, John Mackie and James Metcalfe

Wormhole to Nirvana introduced by Emily Harvey

Artwork by James Metcalfe

Recorded ad mixed by Pete Harvey at Pumpkinfield
Mastered by Reuben Taylor

Out on Tenement Records

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The Leg Edinburgh, UK

"eternally brilliant"" - the list

"sonic alchemists with pop magic dancing from their fingertips" - NME

"open your mind to the grandly calamitous" - julian cope

"note - the band are, it seems, obsessed with carrier bags" - is this music?

"[an eagle to saturn is] a staggeringly brilliant album" - the scotsman
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