trioVD

trioVD: Fill It Up With Ghosts

by Chris May
November 3, 2009

While Oliver Weindling's Babel label has recorded some of Britain's most lyrical and mellifluous artists, including vocalist Christine Tobin, guitarist Phil Robson and the post-bop mutationist band Polar Bear, it has also, true to its name, championed some of the country's most iconoclastic noise-jazz outfits, notably Acoustic Ladyland and Led Bib.

Leeds-based trioVD, though no stranger to gentle neo-ambient beauty, mostly inhabits the latter category, its six feet firmly planted in high-decibel thrash attacks combining the outer reaches ...