Exek: Prove The Mountains Move LP

For just over a decade, EXEK has very quietly become one of the most hypnotic bands on the planet, mutating and growing from record to record, gradually opening themselves up without ever losing that strange, inscrutable, altogether essential quality that's made them so great - so EXEK-y. The Melbourne post-punk outfit now release "Prove The Mountains Move", their seventh album and first for DFA. It is, as vocalist and chief architect Albert Wolski says, "a bit more epic" than anything he's recorded to date, a lush and unabashedly melodic set of surrealist pop that luxuriates in contradiction. "This record is experimental in its craft", Wolski says, "but it may not necessarily sound experimental". Lyrically, Wolski remains oblique. Each song is a vignette into an abstract milieu, whether it's an experimental chiropractic business at an airport, or scantily clad creatures made from dust at a food court. No matter how wacky, there’s themes and motifs throughout the record, both lyrical and musical, that mirror up and reflect each other throughout different songs.