Released: 2020
It’s hard to innocently name your band Holy Fuck, so perhaps the Canadian electronic noise collective shouldn’t have been surprised when they eventually found their way onto the moral majority’s snowflake radar. It happened when four years on from their start in Toronto, when they were specifically name checked in 2008 by the Canadian government and used to justify sanctioning a progressive arts fund. So much for more enlightened times.
Kindred spirits of outfits like Animal Collective and Fuck Buttons, the underground leaning rogues had by that point already became known for improving new compositions whilst on stage and using children’s toys as instruments. Things took a vaguely mainstream term however with their fifth album Deleter, as taking advice from long time collaborator Kieran Hebden they embraced the concept that more accessibility might in future stop the authorities in their tracks.
Inspired by the early 90’s raves of the band’s youth, Free Gloss dabbled in pretty psychedelic flourishes, a spangled aesthetic and featured the heavily distorted vocal of Pond‘s Nick Allbrook. After decoding the words seemed to celebrate spurning conformity “Pro life, pro god, pro gun/
My wife my dog my son/No light no love no fun”, but really it was best to think of it as something your local politician might lose it to after a neckful of garys. Now that’s democracy at it’s best.
The Voice Of Unreason 