Bagel Fanclub - How Are Your Cars Driving? LP (Red Vinyl)

"On their debut album, the duo Bagel Fanclub connect and collide strains of crushing gabber, frenetic IDM, and chirpy video game music in endlessly inventive and shifting combinations. You could imagine tracks like opener “Black Metal On Castanets” or “Crunch Time Vs A Man Made of Overdraft” firing out of a ‘90s arcade cabinet, while the silvery groove of “Smeegle Premonition” almost feels like a nod to Amber-era Autechre. It’s when the duo hit the gas on the gabber with tracks like “Saudade Saw Wielding,” “Sinewave Assembly,” or “Thinking About Segways” that Bagel Fanclub feels transcendent—those chiptune twinkles and fluttering synths becoming all the sweeter in the ear-ringing daze of their jackhammering drums. How Are Your Cars Driving? is a deliriously fun debut and a welcome defibrillator blast to start off the new year." - Miles Bowe, Bandcamp Daily 1/30/23

"Billboards scream your name from all sides as the air force conducts formation drills directly overhead. Shopping carts, electric pickup trucks, and unicycles compete for space on the roads, all alongside the variously costumed pedestrians. Windows endlessly stack upon each other far into outer space. Screams from a distant fistfight harmonize with the nearby man who has turned his set of plastic buckets into a drum kit. Love poems in every language grace the lips of every perfect passerby." - Michael Scharf, Outside Music 1/10/23

released January 6, 2023