Sans Noodles

New album from former Stump bassist, known to many for his previous solo albums on Drag City and Linear Obsessional. Kev Hopper is probably best known as the bass guitarist with Stump, the much beloved Irish-English indie / experimental / rock group formed in London in 1983, who released a number of genre-bending albums and EPs in the late 80s. Since then he's amassed an incredible body of solo works, his mainly instrumental output has been diverse and best described as a hybrid style of experimental and melodic pop with his distinctive fretless, "squelchy" bass playing often to the fore. His debut for Dimple Discs Sans Noodles is a musical delight, at turns playful and surreal, but always surprising and intriguing. Weaving together digital sound collages with live instrumentation, Kev creates a musical universe where cartoonish guitar twang co-exists with processed voice rhythms and song narratives can take on a life of their own.