Thread pulls: Fluorescent series

Fluorescent 1 (9.6)
01. Perfect travelling 05:02
02. Mirror more 03:53
03. Cluster 03:31
04. More heat 05:53
05. Ls. 04:02

Fluorescent 2 (9.7)
06. Give me new noise pt.1 01:19
07. Give me new noise pt.2 04:33
08. My head weight 05:04
09. Less heat 03:32

Fluorescent 3 (9.8)
10. Cycle path 05:07
11. Nice XX 04:32
12. This heat got hotter 02:50

p.54 Make Ready Peter Maybury ISBN 978 0 9566293 3 3, Gall editions, 2015

“January 2007, Thread Pulls Fluorescent series is released. It’s a three EP set and, repeating the strategy of Summer songs, for each EP we set up in a room to improvise and record passages which I later stitch together into tracks. Ed is still the drummer but I find myself adding drum parts too. Gavin puts down vocals, and I run layers of Mini-Moog across it in live improvised passes. There’s more post-processing in these tracks, but they’re still essentially played live. Garrett makes unique artworks for each of the releases. The Irish Times reviewer describes it as music that is neither soft nor safe.”

Irish Times, The Ticket, 12 january 2007
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Fluorescent 1/2/3 9-pt Records ***
Dublin band Thread Pulls don't do things by halves - these three simultaneous releases are in limited editions of 100 copies, and come with individual (and quite rudimentary) artwork by artist Garrett Phelan. Collectors of individualistic music, therefore, will have a field day, while fans of music that is neither soft nor safe also may find something to treasure here. The musical blueprint appears very much in tune with the likes of This Heat, The Fall and various Krautrock acts; sounds jumble one into the other, melodies drift, tunes meander, vocals enter and then exit. It might sound like drab experimentation, idiosyncrasy for its own sake, but repeated listenings provide glinting, glancing pleasures. The releases are on sale at Thread Pulls (rare) live gigs and from their website. Tony Clayton-Lea