Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
EXEK - Good Thing They Ripped Up The Carpet [2021]
Lulus Sonic Disc Club
The longer you sit the more it grows
If it wasn't a give away by now, EXEK are one of my favourite Australian bands. Each record manages to achieve something markedly different to the last, never afraid to explore weird musical avenues, usually deconstructing elements of punk, post-punk, krautrock, and dub. Perhaps of any previous EXEK release, this may be most representative of their diverse styles. The first half of this record was written and recorded in 2020, while the second half is comprised of a collection of tracks that have been used to contribute to other people’s releases from as early as 2015.
0:00 Palazzo di Propaganda Fide
3:54 Several Souvenirs
8:03 The Plot
14:02 Brittle Relatives
16:08 Orthodox
17:23 Four Stomachs
21:06 The Theme From Judge Judy
25:23 Lottery of Inheritance
29:46 Too Steep A Hill To Climb
"Good Thing They Ripped Up the Carpet is the latest LP of deconstructed enchantment from Australian post-punks EXEK. One reaches for the word dreamy but gravitates to phantasmagoric, which also means to change or shift, such as a scene composed of many elements. That describes the technical birth of this LP, too: side A is new material that was written and recorded in 2020, while side B is a compilation of tracks that have been used to contribute to other people’s releases.
Since the second half is an amalgamation of tracks across both place and time – the oldest is from 2015, while the newest hasn’t been released yet – it only made sense for side A to mimic that variegated quality. Hip-hop, krautrock, ambient, straight PiL worship, new wave romantic pop, field recordings from Japan, and a solo that tips the hat at Black Sabbath’s “NIB” all figure into this wide-ranging collection of songs. EXEK tends to be classified as post-punk, but they excel most at the lesser-punk elements of that descriptor; trippy dub, meditative motorik, and self-sampling as sonic propellant.
Menacing textures, eerie and introspective moods, majestic lyrics, manipulated voices, bending time and warping pitch. Good Thing They Ripped Up the Carpet braids together all these disparate threads, a funhouse ride through refracted memories and future worlds." - Ana Gavrilovska
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EXEK - Good Thing They Ripped Up The Carpet [2021]
Lulus Sonic Disc Club
The longer you sit the more it grows
If it wasn't a give away by now, EXEK are one of my favourite Australian bands. Each record manages to achieve something markedly different to the last, never afraid to explore weird musical avenues, usually deconstructing elements of punk, post-punk, krautrock, and dub. Perhaps of any previous EXEK release, this may be most representative of their diverse styles. The first half of this record was written and recorded in 2020, while the second half is comprised of a collection of tracks that have been used to contribute to other people’s releases from as early as 2015.
0:00 Palazzo di Propaganda Fide
3:54 Several Souvenirs
8:03 The Plot
14:02 Brittle Relatives
16:08 Orthodox
17:23 Four Stomachs
21:06 The Theme From Judge Judy
25:23 Lottery of Inheritance
29:46 Too Steep A Hill To Climb
"Good Thing They Ripped Up the Carpet is the latest LP of deconstructed enchantment from Australian post-punks EXEK. One reaches for the word dreamy but gravitates to phantasmagoric, which also means to change or shift, such as a scene composed of many elements. That describes the technical birth of this LP, too: side A is new material that was written and recorded in 2020, while side B is a compilation of tracks that have been used to contribute to other people’s releases.
Since the second half is an amalgamation of tracks across both place and time – the oldest is from 2015, while the newest hasn’t been released yet – it only made sense for side A to mimic that variegated quality. Hip-hop, krautrock, ambient, straight PiL worship, new wave romantic pop, field recordings from Japan, and a solo that tips the hat at Black Sabbath’s “NIB” all figure into this wide-ranging collection of songs. EXEK tends to be classified as post-punk, but they excel most at the lesser-punk elements of that descriptor; trippy dub, meditative motorik, and self-sampling as sonic propellant.
Menacing textures, eerie and introspective moods, majestic lyrics, manipulated voices, bending time and warping pitch. Good Thing They Ripped Up the Carpet braids together all these disparate threads, a funhouse ride through refracted memories and future worlds." - Ana Gavrilovska
DOWNLOAD:
exek.bandcamp.com/album/good-thing-they-ripped-up-the-carpet
BUY THE LP:
lulusmelb.com
DISCLAIMER:
Uploaded on behalf of EXEK.
