EXEK
Continuing the carpet trend this fortnight are veteran post-punks EXEK, who are back with their first new music in two years – an LP of tracks that date way back to the somewhat normal times of 2015. If Carpet Burn are a worn-in bushy burgundy carpet in a timeless sharehouse lounge, then EXEK are perhaps the slightly less hectic carpet in one of the bedrooms.
Their post-punk sound is dreamy, ethereal and somewhat ambient – but no less edgy. ‘The Theme From Judge Judy’ blinks itself awake like a computer booting up for the first time in years; Albert Wolski’s vocals crawling through as if filtered through VHS, cassette