For ten years, Pariah - now called Sans Pareil - has been Thomas Dowse and John Casey. Since first meeting at uni while studying art, the pair have spent the better part of a decade working together, crafting sonic worlds from all the parts of life you'd rather not look at. Tales of small town desperation, crime, sleeze, and poverty abound in what's been described as a 'scumbag panorama', with their releases often accompanied by illustrations and animations bringing it to disgusting life. They've been described as everything from "a tweaked-out Withnail and I fronting Swans" and "a Grimsby pub-fight on a Friday night" for good reason, basically.Backed by a new, larger ensemble in 2016, Sans Pareil are about to release their second album The Future Ooze - a culmination of almost two years collaborative work between a small group of musicians based around North London and the South coast. We're premiering "You Give Me (The Creeps)" from it below, and if their previous material was akin to Withnail and I on a bender, then this is the morning after. Recalling the burned-out garage rock of The Velvet Underground, the dissonance of early Sonic Youth, and the dystopian rage of The Fall, Sans Pareil have nailed a convergence of punk and art-rock in a way we haven't heard in a minute.Listen below.
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The Future Ooze is due out April 29 through Hot Salvation Records and available to pre-order now.