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Egg Potato Phenomenon

by Egg Potato Phenomenon

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Numbered, precision-duped yolk-yellow cassette with unique signed A5 potato print by underground artist Titch Onions, four EPP art cards, and a bright yellow Egg Potato Phenomenon tote bag.

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Potato 11:36
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Egg 13:41
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about

Something highly suspicious happened in late February 2023. A woman out on her morning coastal walk in Hamamatsu, 155 miles from Tokyo, stumbled on a mysterious metal orb approximately 1.5 meters in diameter. Looking like an alien anomaly or some obscure unexploded artillery, officials were concerned enough to cordon off the beach for bomb disposal experts to inspect. Declared hollow and benign by the men in hazmat, the unexplained phenomenon – quickly dubbed ‘Godzilla Egg’ online – nonetheless fed into the growing air of paranoia, exacerbated by the US playing William Tell with Chinese spy balloons a few weeks earlier.

Norfolk synth meister and crisp connoisseur Gling saw it differently, however, visualising the sphere as a giant spud instead. It got him thinking about a bigger question – is the potato better than the egg?

To put it to the test, he gathered up sonic reprobates Eddie Cheddar, Lol Oliver and Dr C. The freshly hatched Egg Potato Phenomenon don’t so much deconstruct his low-voltage brainwave as batter it about: baking, boiling and frying their tiny minds in two makeshift studio spaces (situated, respectively, near a fabled potato grower and a classic egg-rolling site) on an improvised quest for the truth.

After a flurry of beats and the voice of the great Seamus Heaney, Potato follows a warped electro pulse. Dr C’s spoken tale of his missing friend Spud upends it early doors, echoing guitars joining the fray before a fever dream sequence spins it off into the outer limits.

A triple-yolker of doomcore beats and ghostly choirs, Egg is a curate’s affair, where meandering soft porn synths cackle below TV chef Jack Show’s guide to frying an egg, funk and cello drones mash with wild sax, and Gainsbourg bass entwines with psychedelic guitars.

Despite the claustrophobia, the resulting 26-minute two-track mini-LP is as wild, vivid and curious as anything that ever washed up on Enshuhama Beach.

credits

released May 5, 2023

Egg Potato Phenomenon are:

Gling – Synth, samples
Eddie Cheddar – Bass, cello
Lol Oliver – Beats, saxophone
Dr C – Guitar, vox

Written and produced by Egg Potato Phenomenon
Engineered by Teddy William
Editing, post-production and mastering by Gling
Egg recorded in Penrith, Cumbria on April 7, 2023
Potato recorded in Swaffham, Norfolk on April 10, 2023
Artwork by Barry Sugarman
Potato prints by Titch Onions
With titular apologies to Pat Fish (1957-2021). R.I.P.

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