Scottish Post Prog Rockers Idiogram unveil new single Butcher’s Parcel.

Released on Friday 13th December, Butcher’s Parcel follows the gentle undulations and textures of their debut single Twilight Sleep as the second release from their upcoming album Reunion Of Broken Parts. 

Showcasing the band’s wide arc of influences, and further cementing their irreverence towards the notion of genre that comes via their ‘make it weird’ slogan, Butcher’s Parcel is driven by a kaleidoscope of pulsing synths, off-beat drums and huge guitar lines. It’s part dance track, part classical prelude as the band blend disparate elements into a greater whole. They suggest imagining two versions of the same piece intertwined and battling for dominance; digital vs. organic, modern vs. traditional.

Here’s what the band has to say about the new single:

“I think of Butcher’s Parcel as our wild card track, it takes some of the elements that would normally sit in the background of our music and pushes them into the foreground.  It’s sort of against our collective nature to be grandiose musically, so committing to those big sounds and melody lines felt quite uncomfortable. It wasn’t until we stopped resisting and approached the song with commitment that it really took shape”. – Lesley (keys)

“That twitchy ambience in the middle is a real contrast from the feedbacking guitars surrounding it: if there’s one track that captures the breadth of sounds on the album, Butcher’s Parcel is most likely it”. – Ali (guitar)

“Yeah, it does sit apart from the rest of the album to an extent, but I enjoy playing this one all the more for it. In my head, we collectively act like a big sequencer on Butcher’s Parcel – loops and parts are faded in and out, and in performance too, we talk about each moving back and forth from the foreground as the track develops” – Keith (drums).

“Butcher’s Parcel began life as a set of loops in Ableton, and it retains that relentless metronomic quality for most of the track. The machine music feeling is leavened by an ambient break in the middle and the gradual breakdown of the repeating elements towards the end. It’s tricky to navigate these changes live, but great fun as well”. – Ali (bass)

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