{"product_id":"the-secret-degree","title":"The Secret Degree","description":"\u003cp\u003eA brand new avant-pop masterpiece from the geniuses behind the legendary UK DIY envelope pushing sonic pioneers Milk From Cheltenham, Die Trip Computer Die, The Just Measurers, Amos and Sara etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMozart was a freemason. While still a baby, he was gifted a magic !ute \non which he wrote all his tunes. Some of them are still around. \n\nEven so, the best way to gift-wrap your head around The Secret Degree, \nthe latest release from Xentos Fray Bentos (guitars, keys, voice) and \nTed ‘Tebbs’ Barrow (circuit-bending, percussion) is to picture it as a \ntown. A town full of pity: Five blocks long, forty miles north of \nnowhere, with an empty gas station, a closed up diner and the smoking \nremains of a Freemason’s Hall, recently burnt to the ground by a pack of\n incensed villagers fresh out of a Universal Pictures’ Frankenstein. In \namong the pitted ruins sit Ted and Xentos,plucking and slapping their \ninstruments, busily exploring the folkish blue roots that underpin \ntoday’s music making and trying to figure out how we got to where we’re \nat.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeel free to roll up one leg of your pants, curl up a sleeve and join \nthem on this nimble trip through an imaginary landscape of coltishly \ncultivated harmonies, mind-jingling\n\nmelodies, all tempered by the occasional banshee wail of an untameable circuit. \n\nTwo Square Why? Indeed. Why not? \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emotional Response","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50426733789515,"sku":"2004523","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a2818787955_16_bc37aff2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726816619","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/the-secret-degree","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}