Handle - In Threes

Powered by looping, hypnotic synth lines, quaking flexes of bass, clattering tribal percussion and expeditious, often agitated vocals that cordially sprint, Handle's songs – all of which clock in around the two minute mark – owe as much to performance poetry as they do to the vibrancy of post-punk and new wave.

Handle make music occupied by dark shapes that move beneath a roiling surface. Jolting, shattering, cracking, smoothed, bounded, punctuated. Handle's debut album (which follows an EP, Demonstations, on the band's own Absolute Fiction imprint) is a collection of frenetic sounds for frenzied forms, incorporating a diverse range of influences, from samba to no wave.

Handle is made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire (former members of D.U.D.S) and Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist, renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The group mesh politics with a trans experience of time and a vibrant, avant-garde freedom of approach.

TRACKLIST

1. Vocal Exercise

2. Punctured Time

3. What It Does

4. Lifes Work

5. Coagulate

6. Sunday Morning

7. Mhmm

8. Rubber Necks

9. In Tension

10. Step By Step

11. Describe