Philly duo Writhing Squares first came to my attention via their loose side project/offshoot group Writhing Squares Too which featured in the Richie’s Records Summer Singles Series a few years back. The intervening years have brought a sheen to the duo’s lo-fi rock’n’roll pummel and whacked out echo vocals that featured on that single, but also an expansiveness. Their latest double LP, Chart For The Solution, sees a higher-fi approach that allows for minimal pummel to evolve into a a Kraut-ier motorik drive but still with heavy nods to the overblown sax and guitar of the Stooges and the warped electronics of Suicide (or for those looking for more localised reference points, the group kind of sit somewhere in the nexus of Laughing Gear and Sleeper & Snake). -Mitch (Repressed Records)
