Written by: Dave Cantrell
Sporting a spooky psych-drone ambiance, a lurid suggestivity, and a bass that mines the fevered gutter depths of the soul, the curiously-named “Karl Burns” by Portugal’s 10000 Russos, in no small way aided by the blinkingly evocative frame-within-a-frame-within-a-frame video that accompanies it, is a dark swath of electronic voodoo pop that you can only desperately hope soundtracks your next dream. What exactly the former drummer in the Fall has to do with this track – or what he thinks about it for that matter – was not clear by the time we went to press. Some mysteries, we have to assume, just demand to remain unsolved.
[“Karl Burns” is from 10000 Russos’ debut album set to be released in late April or early May on Fuzz Club Records]
[feature photo by Lúcia Campinho]
