Description
Hong Kong’s 假日貞操 Virgin Vacation are pleased to announce their debut EP, entitled “Virgin Vacation”. They are a Hong Kong-based instrumental group that use repetition and improvisation to create hypnotic, spiraling soundscapes which are constantly in flux.
The four tracks that comprise the EP are all instrumental; each has its own unique sound and character but they share characteristics of improvisation, exploration, and the mixture of electronic music with rock.
The EP kicks off with a sound collage of a woman’s voice dispassionately recounting events related to the Hong Kong protests—before being crowded out by multiple copies of itself and a rising drone, reflecting the overwhelming news cycle in the city.
In Acid Rain An insistent krautrock bassline joins and stays for the next seven minutes, joining glitchy and heavily processed guitars that evoke church organ and choir over an acidic electronic beat before the track breaks down into a contrapuntal interlocking guitar duo. The track is spacious, futuristic, and evocative.
5 Step is a dark and driving track that mashes up spaghetti western sounds with math rock. Intricate guitar patterns weave like tangled branches over a complex polymetric backing (5/8 over 4/8).
