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David Eugene Edwards & Carpenter Brut Post Collaboration “Fab Tool”

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The largesse here speaks for itself in the half-time beats behind David Eugene Edwards‘ echoing lyrics. Carpenter Brut, the synth-driven manifestation of Poitiers, France’s Franck Hueso, isn’t the first electronic artist with whom Edwards — best known as frontman/auteur of Wovenhand — has collaborated, but “Fab Tool” is particularly effective. The slow rhythm evokes a sense of heft in the proceedings, and the video matches form, bringing yellow-sky open-road Americana with vague post-apocalyptic imagery and scenes of lizards and ruin in unnamed deserts. All the while, the severity comes from both sides in cinematic bursts of bass and the chorus giving way to a midsection crescendo of Edwards spitting rhymes — which, as they almost inevitably would, include shouting out Bible passages and landmarks in Montana — a fittingly rhythmic drama unfolding in unabashedly pop darkness. It is modern in its grit.

Wovenhand‘s next full-length, to be titled Silver Sash, has been thoroughly delayed by COVID-19 — see also: everything — but will allegedly see issue in 2021. Whenever it arrives, it will be the follow-up to 2016’s Star Treatment (review here), and if it is next year, that five-year stretch will represent the longest between two of the band’s releases. Of course, there’s been plenty of touring all the while — this year aside; Wovenhand were scheduled to be out with Om this past Spring — but what that might mean in terms of sound, who knows. Edwards in the meantime was also booked to do various solo performances throughout 2020, including at Roadburn, and did a few before lockdown hit, so perhaps there’s another avenue being pursued there creatively as well. I won’t claim to know and I won’t claim any insight. I just dug this track and wanted to post it because it’s something different from the usual onslaught of riffs around here. You can dive in or not, as you will.

Enjoy if you do:

Carpenter Brut Feat. David Eugene Edwards, “Fab Tool” official video

Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp : https://carpenterbrut.lnk.to/FabTool

Directed by Dehn Sora – www.dehnsora.com

Color Grading by The Deka Brothers – www.dekabrothers.com

Mastered by Thibault Chaumont at Deviant Lab Studio – www.deviantlab.com

Lyrics by David Eugene Edwards

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