Triage by Methyl Ethel

Triage, Methyl Ethel's third album, came out on 15 February 2019 through Dot Dash and 4AD, and it makes plain what the Perth art-rock outfit has always been on record: Jake Webb's one-man project. Webb played, produced and recorded it himself at home, and it stayed a solo job right up until the mix, yet nothing about it sounds cramped. He sets programmed beats against real instruments and synth sounds of his own design, piling them into lush, off-kilter layers that feel made for a much bigger room.

The mood swings from melancholy to woozy to strangely danceable, sometimes inside one song, and "Scream Whole" was on the countdowns before the album even arrived. Two years after the James Ford co-produced Everything Is Forgotten, Triage earned Webb a nomination for the Australian Music Prize.

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