THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “On Like Cartoon Vampires, The Convenience — New Orleans multi-instrumentalists Nick Corson and Duncan Troast — embrace a hypnotic physicality and collage-like, spur-of-the-moment approach to composition. The result is an avant-rock soundworld peppered with spidery, atonal guitar work, pointy rhythms, and strident feedback — in many ways a 180° from the sugary funk-pop of their 2021 debut album Accelerator.
With Like Cartoon Vampires, following their inspiration meant creating with their hands much more than buttons or switches. Sessions were characterized by gnarly, improvisational jams as they tinkered with everything from cassette loops, found sounds, and 808s. Tracks like Target Offer and Fake The Feeling quake with ear-splitting guitar feedback, while Pray’r and Rats eschew their groove worship in favor of haunting minimalism. In song after song, Accelerator’s pop influences are traded in for more eccentric frontiers, with the clear common denominators of their first two records being the duo’s spellbinding, funky instincts and a mastery of texture.
Lyrically, Like Cartoon Vampires collects dispatches from a dying empire–characters are devoured by alienation and vanity, though society doesn’t bat an eye. But make no mistake, these songs are not merely disaffected ennui–music-making and collaboration are intensely emotional practices for The Convenience, and they reflect a shrieking lust for life.”
