Album Review: Too Cold to Hold by Warmduscher

Confidence Man’s Janet Planet and Lianne La Havas are amongst the featured guests amidst the clattering, kaleidoscopic garage rock. It’s their best album yet Though Warmduscher started as a house show band featuring members of the Fat White Family, and various members of Warmduscher have collaborated with various other members of Fat Whites and their adjacent bands (notably Decius), they've certainly grown their a distinct sound (though guitarist Adam J Harmer still retains a spot in that group), and formed an identity of their own. While debut album Khaki Tears managed to do a lot with a little ('edgy' art punk style and a 26 minute running time), it was 2018's harder-edged garage rock album Whale City that really launched them – a year later and they managed to get Iggy Pop and Kool Keith on their next record Tainted Lunch.

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You might think that after four albums, it'd be easy to rest on your laurels as a band. For Warmduscher, this is not the case. Their fifth album Too Cold To Hold sees the self-proclaimed "12-legged groove machine" embrace all things new. Fusing gqom with hip-hop and jazz, on top of their revered niche of chaotic playfulness and observational absurdities, you can try imagining what's in store… but you're better off diving straight in.

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"I took a long hit on the pipe… and I felt my body slowly dissolve into digital dots" intones Irvine Welsh as Warmduscher's latest record begins. That their fifth album begins with this surreal spoken-word tale does not feel in the least bit surprising. Their music has, after all, always felt a bit like a messy acid trip, full of debauched stories about the seedy underbelly of modern life.

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