"Because this four-piece's sludge-metal and post-hardcore is unrelenting, full of fierce drumming and gnarled riffs. But it is arguably Karsyn Henderson's elastic voice contorting itself into yelps, whines, and growls that is the most effective instrument on stage. When guitarist Paul Lecours introduced a banjo for "I bore you now you bear for me," he transported us to the band's rural upbringing in Alberta. It's like gazing at a photograph so long that you start feeling you were there."
"It felt like poet Ali Sethi and producer Nicolás Jaar 's paths would cross eventually, but it took Sethi getting on Instagram Live during lockdown and reciting Ghazal poetry, a form of medieval Arabic verse, over the spectral fragments of Jaar's , for a creative partnership to blossom. This is a story Sethi recounted during the artists' spellbinding hour together at Union Chapel, as Jaar conjured up prickly electronic sounds with flickers of metallics, soft tinkles of piano, and subaqueous bass,"
Pitchfork Music Festival London presented 81 acts across 20 events in venues including the Barbican, the Shacklewell Arms, and Cafe Oto over five days. The bill mixed established figures like Laurie Anderson and Lonnie Holley with forward-looking artists such as underscores, Los Thuthanaka, and MIKE. Truck Violence delivered unrelenting sludge-metal and post-hardcore driven by fierce drumming, gnarled riffs, and Karsyn Henderson's elastic voice, with a banjo moment evoking the band's Alberta roots. Ali Sethi and Nicolás Jaar paired Ghazal poetry with sparse, prickly electronic textures, soft piano tinkles, and subaqueous bass that foregrounded Sethi's commanding vocals.
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