Name: Chart for the Solution
Brand: The Writhing Squares

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

TIM159LPC1

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Colour

Yellow

Colour details

Yellow with Red/Blue Splatter

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve. Hyperdrive Vinyl.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0793420070899

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

TIM159LP

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Black

Extended format: No

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve.

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0793420070905

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

TIM159CD

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0793420070929

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Writhing Squares

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Trouble In Mind

Trouble in Mind is a record label based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 2009 by Bill Roe and Lisa Roe, two passionate music enthusiasts. Since its inception, the label has been dedicated to releasing high-quality music across various genres.
With an impressive roster of talented artists, Trouble in Mind has become known for its diverse and eclectic catalog. From *The Liminanas* to *Ultimate Painting*, the label showcases a range of musical styles that appeal to both mainstream and alternative audiences.
As an independent label, Trouble in Mind prides itself on providing a platform for emerging artists to share their unique voices with the world. The label's commitment to nurturing talent has resulted in numerous critically acclaimed releases and collaborations.

Back In Stock

Writhing Squares - the Philadelphia duo of Kevin Nickles (sax, flute, synth) and Daniel Provenzano (bass, vocals) - have been refining the nuts and bolts of their sound over their previous two albums. Their latest (and second for Trouble In Mind), Chart For The Solution is a double album chock full what makes them tick; heady, progressive, psychedelic space-rock-cum-minimal synth slop, punctuated by MacKay / Chance-style blasts of brass and woodwinds that definitely scratch an itch.

Over the course of Chart For The Solution's four sides, Nickles and Provenzano utilize the extended format to stretch out and settle into a groove all their own. From the relentless synth pulse of opener "Rogue Moon", thru the aggro-throb of "Geisterwaltz" and four-on-the-floor scree of "Ganymede", The Squares have no mercy for your weary ears. After a brief, (slightly) mellow respite thru three tunes ("The Abyss Is Never Brighter"/"A Chorus of Electrons"/"The Library"), the band ratchets up the intensity with the cacophonous clatter of "NFU" (featuring Philly legend "Harmonica" Dan Balcer Ripping thru runs on his harp) leading right into the album's centerpiece; all of Side Three's "The Pillar", a near-nineteen minute epic suite that launches the listener straight into the maw of a black hole and thru the other side. Side Four closes out "Chart For The Solution" starting with the slinky stomp of "North Side of The Sky" into "Resurrect Dead On Planet Whatever"s unsettling, cosmic-funeral dirge. Fittingly, "Epilogue" closes out the album, with Nickles' sax dive bombing around Provenzano's bass throb like an alien interpretation of "Funhouse"s howling anarchy, augmented by live drums by John Schoemaker &amp; organ by Alex Ward. Chart For The Solution really is a Zone, &amp;andthe perfect auditory cleanser to scrub away the stain of the previous year.

Chart for the Solution

Music GB