Chopping Mountain: Green Smoke ‘Peak’ Vinyl LP Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings In mid-October

In mid-October

and I wanted to see how that would translate into a full-band Fruit Bats record

like the one featured on the album cover

outer space and utopian vision of the future feature

Named one of the Best EPs and Albums of the Year so far by Mixmag

Chopping Mountain: Green Smoke ‘Peak’ Vinyl LP Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings In mid-OctoberChopping Mountain, the new record by Ibibio Sound Machine is the clearest rendering yet of the London collectives longstanding mission to promote love, unity, and resistance through music. It is the bands sixth full length record, and the first to feature the bands Max Grunhard as producer since 2019s Doko Mien. Following their Hot Chip produced breakthrough Electricity (2022) and the darker, clubbier inflection of the Ross Orton produced Pull the