Top Release: Pivot ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’

Top Release: Pivot ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’

18 September, 2008 | 2.19PM

• Written by: Lolo Van der Venne
• Filed under: Music News: warp

Officially a band since the 1990s, Pivot would have surely been on the hit list for many indie labels but were quite simply ‘off the radar’, residing in the massive expanse of land and marsupials known as Australia.

It was only with a new member, a creatively vivid new album and an ornamental hotdog gifted to Warp with their demo tape that Pivot join us with their epically accomplished instrumental soundclash.

Coming at you with the stamina of one long explosive jam session, drum beats are often programmed in deliberate disjointed frenzy.

‘Didn’t I Furious’ and ‘Epsilon’ replicate the kind of strung out desensitisation you got when playing Mortal Combat with the volume up but, this aural unrest only further elevates moments of intense calm and beauty laid bare in other tracks like ‘Nothing Hurts Machine’ and ‘My Heart Marching Band’.

There is many a nod to geek prog rock on tracks ‘Love Like I’ and also on title track ‘O Soundtrack My Heart’ which interludes with power rock guitar suspended over epic pauses, while the chaotic live drum beats of ‘Sweet Memory’ are more comparable to fellow Warp signings ‘Battles’.

‘Fool In Rain’, perfectly crafted in its simplicity, ventures out as a tempered electronic drum pattern, picking up some inter galactic effects along the way and then blossoms into a beautiful pool of synthesisers.

Like a truly great experimental album there are metamorphic moments around every corner bolstered by a supreme confidence that no matter where they are going they knew where they were going all along.

An album to headbang, fight, love and cry to, keep your ears on Pivot for the future.

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