{"product_id":"628425430037","title":"FURRY WORRIED APE | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBadge Epoch, Furry Worried Ape (TER130) is the second album by Badge Epoch - Maximilian \"Twig\" Turnbull's solitary variant of the Badge Époque Ensemble - and the first in his discography made almost entirely alone. Following 2021's Scroll, a 2xLP sprawl which WIRE praised as \"an attempt to fit a whole world onto two slabs of vinyl,\" this one is all scalpel and no sprawl: six tracks, under half an hour, produced and mixed with forensic patience by Turnbull at Clyde's Temple, his garage home-studio.  Built bar-by-bar on MIDI programming - using drum sounds from The Cloud Sound, a sample pack drawn from Badge Époque Ensemble sessions - the grooves bend the grid to their own logic, inhabiting an uncanny register between the performed and programmed. From this blur emerges a language steeped in the lavish elegance of Mizell Brothers productions and Love Unlimited's symphonic jazz-funk, refracted through a modern \"hauntological\" lens; the cosmopolitan peaks of 1970s studio arrangement, rescaled for an era of automation. Throughout, the album navigates multiple meanings of \"funk\": syncopated, groove-first mood building; idiosyncratic strangeness; the singular \"stench\" of a one-person vision commandeering a live-band idiom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BADGE EPOCH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242373165301,"sku":"628425430037","price":24.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9325\/5669\/files\/0628425430037.jpg?v=1780891132","url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/628425430037","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}