Upset the Rhythm

CHOPS and Helhesten

Split 12 inch (CD UTR13)

cover: UTR13

Total Running Time: 40 minutes

Track listing:

    CHOPS SIDE

  1. You Can Offer Your Love
  2. Ospylac Emit (mp3)
  3. Giant Whale Is A Krill Eater
  4. Ill Eagle
  5. Loose Talk

    HELHESTEN SIDE

  1. Dithyramb

Recorded by John Hannon at No Studios, this split release between CHOPS and Helhesten is part of a series of records from Upset The Rhythm documenting the fertile and often overlooked experimental / underground scene of the UK. Helhesten's "Dithyramb" is a collision of energies, stretching and distorting the inherited sounds and shapes of records full of yowl and lo-fi discord with the zeal of the gutter-punk, free music underground making ecstatic noises across the globe right now. A dissonant clatter of precariously structured outer-rock pieces is bound fast by revolving guitar and viola drone, piano clonk, and crumbling tape loops. From these uncertain foundations the clarinet and vocal squall attack, build, and finally fall out completely, only for the beat up three-stringed Fender to lurch forward again for the final flare-up. CHOPS have married up their love of fidgety drum patterns, effect-drenched saxophone and synthesiser showdowns in such a way that every broken sound that swells forth is caked in euphoria and creeped-out gravity.