Post-Punk experimenters Fruit recently released the sprawling, beguiling and explosive new single 'Racehorse Deathwatch'. Packing depthy musicianship with interlock riffs, moving time signatures and moments of intimate reflection and others of explosive noise, the track made us want to learn more about the bands inspirations.
Over to Fruit to give us 5 of their all time faves:
Ithica 27/9- Mogwai
Mogwai have always been an inspiration for us, I personally love how they deal with dynamics when writing music and how they can go from intricate guitar parts to face melting distortion. This song exemplifies that attitude as they drift between layered, quieter guitar chords and balls to the wall noise insanity. The main guitar line is reminiscent of Jim’s playing in the 5/4 section of Racehorse Deathwatch with the way the chords ascend. They’re the best thing to come out of Scotland since deep fried mars bars and Buckfast (Alex)
Study In Complacency - Faraquet
Faraquet are a band I often cite as an inspiration to the emotions in which we try to create through our song writing. Of most importance - the time signatures changes which throughout this song, feel natural and without a keen ear, you wouldn’t even notice them. I believe this is embodied in RHDW as I view it our most ambitious creation in terms of complexity. It’s interesting to note that during the writing process, these time signature changes fell into place without any pressure to fit in. Just like Faraquet, utilising these time signatures helped us to portray specific feelings when we wanted to. The 5/4 section evokes the feeling the song is almost rolling over itself, building up to some sort of evil realisation while the chorus (being in 10/4) helps us convey uneasiness and a general feeling of being on edge. The atmosphere that ‘Study In Complacency’ creates can be heard in our work.
(Goerge)
We think so Ill of you - Sprain
Sprain have been another massive influence on the band and what I really love about this song in particular is the exchange of intricate guitar patterns that wrestle with walls of sounds dispersed through them. There’s a lot of wonderful, complex stuff going on in this song and in RHDW, George’s punchy drums met with Jim’s wandering lines, also with the dynamism of Alex’s baseline and Josh’s singing. All I wanted to do then in this song, is to cut through this sometimes with some terribly open guitar chords and hopefully create a relationship with the other instruments that is equal parts harmonic and awkward. (Bryn)
Slint - Nosferatu Man
At the time of writing Racehorse Deathwatch, we were listening to a lot of Slint, who have been a big influence on us since we started making music. Brian Mcmahan writes these long winding narratives in their songs and his delivery is incredible. We love his switch between sprawling quiet sections and intense, aggressive vocal delivery. (Josh)
Recourse - Council on Foreign Relations
The way all of the instruments in this song melt in to the rhythm of the drums in this song is something to behold. The interplay between intricate, math rock-esque guitar riffs with unconventional chords with lots of open strings and harmonics is also really impressive. Cool band. (Jim)
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