PRIMITIVE CINEMA – THREADS

ALPHA010 ‘Primitive Cinema’ is available on all major streaming services from 16th September 2022.

On first inspection, Green Man Rising finalists Threads join a long lineage of bands with a propensity for oblique, spoken word tirades and propulsive musicality – they’ve even been likened to Squid and, more predictably, The Fall. Delve a little deeper and you’ll find something more experimental at play, with the emphasis being on melody, nuance, restrained chaos and an overall tenacity to continuously evolve. The occult, modernism, Spaghetti Western soundtracks, working class intellectualism and seedy Channel 4 documentaries are all themes. With ever-changing influences from all art forms, the Manchester-based four-piece are also currently informed by the following: Jonathan Meades, Country Teasers, Electrelane, Duster, The B-52s, Rex Shelveton, La Düsseldorf, Polvo, This Heat, Chris and Cosey, Stereolab and much more.

Largely informed by Kane’s relationship with his mother and the many stories she heard working as a dispenser in a chemist for 20 years, the band’s second single ‘Primitive Cinema’ is also inspired by practitioners of weird fiction (Ramsay Campbell, M.R. James and Colin Wilson) and approaches themes of toxic masculinity and generational trauma. The single is accompanied by a music video shot on Super 8 film, made by local filmmaker and photographer Catherine Jablonski.

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