{"title":"Lice","description":"\u003cp\u003ePost-punk band from Bristol, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"third-time-at-the-beach","title":"Third Time at the Beach","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormed in Bristol, 4-piece Lice have become one of UK experimental rock’s most inventive and ambitious outliers. Their second album\u003ci\u003e Third Time At The Beach\u003c\/i\u003e – a three-part epic exploring our struggle to better understand the world around us – arrives via AD 93. Darting between minimalism, rock, techno and more, it sends us hurtling us through time and space: featuring a cast of astronauts, cavemen and dinosaurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThird Time At The Beach’s\u003c\/i\u003e concept is expressed through three movements. The first (‘Unscrewed’, ‘White Tubes’, ‘Red Fibres’) presents the child being introduced to the world, hammered into shape through prevailing culture, and realising they have reached adulthood with a blinkered understanding of the world. The second (‘To The Basket’, ‘Wrapped In A Sheet’, ‘Scenes From The Desert’, ‘Mown In Circles’) is a disorientating, alien sequence: reevaluating fundamental concepts including money, time, nationhood and language. In the third (‘Fatigued, Confused’, ‘Third Time At The Beach’, ‘The Dance’), the individual embraces these new ideas – granting them a changed understanding of the world, and more agency in the path they take through it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AD 93","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50426455195979,"sku":"2201296","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Third_Time_at_the_Beach_d3ff50a0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726810355"},{"product_id":"wasteland-1","title":"Wasteland","description":"\u003cp\u003eA ‘satire about satire’, Wasteland is a wild Burroughsian adventure melding science-fiction, absurdism and magical realism, calling fora revolution against the reductive ‘good versus evil’ narratives of popular satirical music. Arguing that through experimenting with the form of the song lyric (our most widely disseminated form of creative writing) we can build more nuanced popular discourse around the implicit forms of bias that ail us, Wasteland presents complex characters changing their minds–along with their bodies and places in spacetime. Set in an unearthly liminal space populated by shape-shifters, time-travellers, talking genitalia and ectoplasmic spectres, the prose text evolves as the characters do: warping into cut-ups, soliloquies and even plays.Created over two years, the album draws from Lice’s rise in ‘the punk world’ (sharing stages with Idles, The Fall, Squid, Fat White Family, Girl Band etc.) and eventual disillusionment with the limits of its prevailing ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWasteland is a concept album structured as an experimental short story, taking cues from Brian Catling, William Burroughs and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Its core argument is that, through reworking the prevailing forms of satirical song lyrics, we can build more nuanced popular discourse around the implicit forms of bias that ail us–the song lyric being the most widely disseminated and commonly ‘engaged with’ form of creative writing there is. In this allegory for crises in society and art (from commodification to ideological state apparatuses), the moral, physical and temporal transformations of its characters are paired with the text’s transformation: breaking from prose into cut-ups, soliloquies and even plays. In the wild, liminal space of the Wasteland, this story follows The Conveyor as here lates the schemes of the shadowy RDC and flamboyant Dr Coehn to engineer the human race’s self-annihilation: introducing us to a cast of time-travellers, shape-shifters, talking genitalia and ectoplasmic spectres.As well as Wasteland’s manifesto, this text features notes directing the curious reader to sources, figures or narratives behind the story’s various arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, the album features a ‘noise intoner’ hand-built by Lice, based on the \u003ci\u003eIntonarumori \u003c\/i\u003eof Luigi Russolo and his early 20th century circle of revolutionaries The Italian Futurists (whose vicious writings and manifestos about the art-world formed source material for the album). Wasteland sees Lice draw influence from Bristol’s vital experimental scene, with the album principally written at community hub The Old England. Having performed with projects such as Scalping, Giant Swan and EP\/64 (Harraga), Lice’s first album sees them reconcile minimalism, prog and industrial in the band’s post-punk framework\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Settled Law Records","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50447303475531,"sku":"1106037","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50447303049547,"sku":"1106032","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/60d82655-549c-4f18-b56c-e61fd924885a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727075715"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_95010dc8_thumbnail_4096_899ff0d8-70d6-4368-90fc-074148e93144.jpg?v=1726810336","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/lice.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}