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***The appearance of Githead and the release of their debut EP Headgit in 2004 surprised many, not only with the unlikely front line of Wire's Colin Newman (guitar, vocals), Minimal Compact's Malka Spigel (bass, vocals) and Scanner's Robin Rimbaud (guitar) but also with the cyclic, hypnotic funkiness not to mention the avant pop sensibility the outfit produces. "Unusually accessible, even funky," wrote Andy Gill in the Independent. "When they're good, they're astonishingly good, both angular and polished," wrote James Snodgrass in the NME. "Cult classic of tomorrow," wrote Q Magazine. "Newman's on-the- side vitality hasn't dimmed a bit," wrote Joe Tangari at Pitchfork.com. Their debut album Profile takes the story and sound-scape of Githead wider and deeper. With the addition of Max Franken (also of Minimal Compact) on drums, the band has become "a small mobile unit" capable of delivering emotional power (as on the opener "Alpha" and the epic "Raining Down"), driving grooves (as on "Option Paralysis" or the frenetic shouty bagginess of the snappily named "Cosmology for Beginners"), or sublime pop lusciousness, like "My LCA (Little Box of Magic)." On the strength of only a handful of live shows, the band recently secured a presence at London's annual Ether Festival where in the words of one reviewer they were "sleek, honed, calculated, sharp, and brilliant!" |
