Grumbling Fur

Emerging from an extended collective improvisation staged across a full day in 2011, the London experimental unit Grumbling Fur first assembled when Daniel O'Sullivan, Antti Uusimaki, Alexander Tucker, Jussi Lehtisalo, and David Smith convened. The participants had previously crossed paths in comparably shadowy and exploratory groups such as Pharoah Overlord, Guapo, and Mothlite. The resulting Krautrock-inspired astral traveling was captured on tape, subsequently shaped into the release Furrier. Reducing the lineup to the core of O'Sullivan and Tucker, the project issued Alice in 2012, a Latitudes in-studio recording that favored open space and pop leanings. The following year brought Glynnaestra, a precisely calibrated and densely electronic statement that edged still nearer to electropop. On 2014’s Preternaturals, issued by The Quietus, the duo sustained its fusion of abstract experimentalism and Brian Eno-inflected science pop. In 2015 Important Records presented ggrrreeebbbaaammmnnnuuuccckkkaaaiiioooww!!!, a meeting between Grumbling Fur—credited as the Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra—and legendary minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine. Returning to Thrill Jockey, the pair delivered its most pop-directed set with 2016’s FurFour.