Polevaulter + 39th Gate Of Hell + Josh Ingham

Polevaulter (Leeds)
+ 39th Gate Of Hell (Sheffield)
+ Josh Ingham
Tuesday 6th February 2024
The New Adelphi Club
Tickets £7 Advance

Electronic-noise duo from Leeds.

“Trend is the latest from Leeds-based duo Polevaulter, a visceral strain of contemporaneous and incandescent electronic-noise which doubles down on the twisted, infectious beats of their Content EP from earlier this year.

Brewing together the sauntering, ebullient mystique of Grauzone’s kraut thunderstorm and a Throbbing Gristle-type thrumming, bassy bedrock, the latest from Leeds noise duo Polevaulter has the swaggering Sleaford Mods energy with none of the cringe. In the most irrepressibly noise-rock way, the dervish of sampling and electronics contort around vocalist Jon Franz as though malfunctioning – a red-hot rapacious stride that circles back on itself for the lugubriousness the illustrative lyrics espouse. This repetition-driven mine of electronics, both dissonant and melodic, becomes brilliantly mangled with Franz’s similarly cyclical, primal chorus. The inherent barbed state throughout conjures an image of the frontman barking his lament on an appropriately noisome treadmill.” louderthanwar