ROMÉO POIRIER - Off The Record LP Fanzine Branch and company are on

Branch and company are on a quest for sonic saturation here and they conjure up moments of real reckoning - hopefulness

cigarettes and panic attacks

I didn’t know the words and didn’t feel like crowdsurfing

an inverted framing of acoustic space with heavy floors ranging from the wake of COIL to the heaviest Japanese fire of psychedelia to the monuments of drone coagulating in the early `aughts

Available for the first time since 1994

ROMÉO POIRIER - Off The Record LP Fanzine Branch and company are onOff The Record, the new album by French collagist Romo Poirier, is an amusing romp through the discarded history of recording studios. It contains fourteen miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio talk, revealing things that were never meant for the public: we hear instructions from studio staff, scraps of talk between musicians, or just microphones being adjusted, as well as false notes, false starts: everyone stops. Start again: 1, 2, 3,