Name: Siren / Something's Happening
Brand: Gong Gong Gong

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WCR089

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-12-07

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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0843563106877

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Artist

Gong Gong Gong

Genre GB

Rest of World

Label GB

Wharf Cat

Beijing's Gong Gong Gong make driving, stripped-down transnational blues, tapping into the spirit of Bo Diddley, the Monks, and psychedelic music from West Africa to Southeast Asia. Phantom Rhythm is the concept at the duo's core: between Tom Ng's percussive guitar and Joshua Frank's melodic, charging bass, an aura of ghostly snare hits emerges over a thumping low-end pulse. Atop this framework, Ng recounts Cantonese tales of absurdity, love and lust with fragmented, wry vision. On their first US release, Gong Gong Gong brings to life a cinematic chase scene. Shot-by-shot, frame-by-frame, Siren is a story of galloping hooves and screeching tires - a horse and car racing each other through mountains and desert, charging into the city. The flip-side, instrumental Something's Happening is Gong Gong Gong at their most raw: locomotive jangle and fuzz-faced roar. Dust, sweat and engine oil, the landscape rushing by.

Siren / Something's Happening

Music GB