{"product_id":"badge-epoch-furry-worried-ape","title":"Badge Epoch - Furry Worried Ape","description":"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.\nBuilt 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.","brand":"Telephone Explosion Records","offers":[{"title":"Midi Green LP + download","offer_id":50591351046422,"sku":"RMX-57119","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50591351210262,"sku":"RMX-57120","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/f7de5ca3131b975202c0b2c4f5253dc6_0753e278-bd35-48ab-8fb3-428776f3f7f9.jpg?v=1760106759","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/badge-epoch-furry-worried-ape","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}