So freeform it makes the phrase 'freeform' sound constrictive, this spellbinding band construct a maze of false starts, clicks, overdriven digital screams, furious silences and extreme noise
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This track by the Nigerian band Billy Bao is not really one track at all: it's many tracks run into one sequence. That deep-reverb womb ambience at 14:00 deconstructs itself completely, beckons in a long period of silence, before making you jump out of your skin with a catastrophically damaged blast of a painfully ruined snippet of what might, once, have been Afrobeat at 16:19. Then again, perhaps they're not "tracks", and perhaps there's no "sequence". Who of us can really say?
