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Map 71 are Lisa Jayne (words, voice, art) and Andy Pyne (drums, sounds, production). Turn Back Metropolis is their fifth album. The record shifts from the hypnotic ascent of the ambitiously minimal title track to the jabbing industrial pulse and social realism of "Stitches". The strutting fantasy mischief of "Siren Tank" leads to the slinky dub vibe and darkly surreal intimacy of "Scissor Kiss Experiment". Then you wake up to another day living the unsettling rhythm of English seaside "Suburbanites". Turn Back Metropolis is as inspired by the dangers and safety in Map 71's habitat as it is by Lisa and Andy's musical influences. The fields are in sight of the city, but there's a curfew and the city waits for you to return.
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Void Axis is Brighton duo Map 71's fourth album. The previous one, Gloriosa, released on Fourth Dimension saw them garnering more praise and attention than before. During the interim they have continued to play live regularly. Map 71's approach draws from post-punk, improvisation, electronics, and other such realms of music. "Engrossing half-stories that provoke a hallucinogenic rumination of the world...hypnotic percussive grooves, creating a broad-band spectrum of texture and motion" -- Freq.org.uk; "Jayne rants like Lydia Lunch run through a vocoder" --Byron Coley, The Wire
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Brighton's Map 71 are a duo comprised of Andy Pyne (percussion, electronics) and Lisa Jayne (words, voice). Together they have been working away at an approach that draws from post-punk, improvisation, electronics, and other such realms of music to create a refreshing environment where reflection, wry observations, the abstract, and immersion can develop. They have existed for a few years now and had several releases out both on their own Foolproof Projects imprint and via a couple of other labels. Gloriosa itself is a reissue of a very limited cassette album released by Fourth Dimension Records in 2017 but included here are six bonus tracks previously issued on a CDr and cassette album. Map 71's songs aren't really songs. They dispense with melody and the verse/chorus structure for an intentional disconnect between Lisa Jayne's delivery and Andy Pyne's beats. Lisa Jayne doesn't have to shout or accentuate her proclamations, observations and confessions; it's the rhythms that provide movement here. It's not always poetry either. And while the electronics revel in comparisons with the proto-electronic sound of Suicide and the rhythms of Z'ev, they're just as likely to co-opt the electro beats of techno.
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