The Quietus Reviews Perc's "Wicker & Steel"

6 July 2011

The Quietus has just published a resounding review of Perc's "savagely evocative" debut album "Wicker & Steel", out now on Perc Trax.  In their review, they write:

Perc offers a distinctly British take on a sound that originated in Detroit and Berlin. That's one reason why Wicker & Steel is such a perfectly-pitched title, calling to mind as it does the creeping, slow-burning dread of classic British horror movies, as well as the stereotyped greys and blacks of post-Industrial Revolution mining towns. Paired especially with the album's most atmospheric tracks – 'Choice'; the five-minute long machine drone of 'Pre-Steel'; 'Gonkle', flecked with hot blasts of sub-bass like the grind of gigantic gears – the overall impression is faintly autobiographical, Wells reflecting the identikit frustration of suburban childhood through harsh and faceless factory textures.

Read the full review here.