Neptune return with Play Some Music and turn scrap metal into mythology

Neptune’s Play Some Music is the kind of experimental rock record that sounds like it was built as much as written. After twelve years of relative quiet, the long-running project returns with a lineup tied to some of its most widely travelled work, and the album’s instrument world is immediately compelling: homemade hardware-store and landfill creations, microtonal and macrotonal wire-framed steel guitars, amplified drums, circular saw blade percussion, electronics and feedback organ. That could become novelty in the wrong hands, but Neptune’s history suggests something deeper. These are not gimmicks; they are the vocabulary of a band that has spent decades treating sound as physical invention. Play Some Music explores classical mythology and memory, but the title is beautifully modest. After all that machinery, history and noise, the command remains simple: play. For adventurous listeners, Neptune remind us that experimental music can still have calloused hands.

Source: https://sleepinggiantglossolalia.bandcamp.com/album/neptune-play-some-music