The British band\u2019s breezy, collagist sound has charmed underground music fans \u2013 though it belies the family and financial strife that went into their beautiful second LP<\/p>\n
During a session for their 2020 debut album, Tara Clerkin Trio were interrupted by building work taking place outside. Scrapes and clangs of scaffolding got caught in the chord loop they were making on a childhood keyboard at the time. Rather than scrap the recording and start again, they grew attached to the soft dissonance of the metal, and sought to replicate it in the final version of the song. They ended up using a more audible clip from a royalty-free sample website, Tara Clerkin recalls, laughing. \u201cWe had to credit the guy who had recorded the sound on the sleevenotes.\u201d<\/p>\n
These happy accidents and incidental noises have gone on to shape much of the Bristol-formed band\u2019s breezy, collage-like <\/strong>sound, which has charmed underground music fans across the spectrum (including jazz heads \u2013 despite the name, they stress that they are not a jazz band). That first album is now on its fourth repress and they\u2019ve released two acclaimed EPs since. Drifting somewhere between minimalist jazz, avant-pop and trip-hop, their looping compositions are born from hours of improvising and layering. Their melodies clatter, clonk and wander in strange directions around Clerkin\u2019s daydreamy incantations, conjured from a motley crew of instruments they can and can\u2019t play properly.<\/p>\n
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