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Barringtone offer their eclectic debut, Bonanza Plan, produced in two parts by Nick Howiantz at Brixton Hill Studios and Oli Bayston (Boxed In) at Gun Factory Studio, Homerton. Bonanza Plan is a slice of avant-garde pop, recorded in live takes, with over-dubs, synths and field recordings. The album is a pulsating and bizarre assortment of progressive pop, math rock and angular mayhem, with an organic smattering of bird song. Lighting-up dancefloors with their mathematical, rock pop wizardry, Barringtone are fast becoming known for their enchanting, complex arrangements and danceable/dissonant time signatures. The album is a mix of glorious electro pop like "Feverhead", to the more math rock, progressive stylings of "Foxes & Brimstone". "Gold Medal Vision" is motoric, unexpected, clunky and funky -- curiously demanding. "Dreamboyz" shimmies into an unanticipated groove from a lyric that conjures the image of unicorns, ridden bareback, tigers painting rainbows, bursting into flame -- wild, heady, and scattered, unexpected chords surge and surprising beats sneak up on you. "Into The Woods" takes you into the forest, as krautrock guitar arrangements conjure electronic beats. "The New New" speeds up, a dazzling synth line, a lilting lift, crafts into a spangled disco ball, evoking an optimistic Public Service Broadcasting, as the track plunges from laser chic to rugged disco beats. "Emily Smallhands" spellbinds like a fine piece of embroidery, musing on a lady with a curious name. "Technollipop" is jerky, frenetic, a Rundgren-esque foray into the hypnotic delights of AK/DK, squelching beats and choir-like rock vocals. Finale "Pet Gazelles" is a whirring miasma of beats and electronics, surging towards sonic genius, while creating an eccentric and exhilarating sketchbook of sound similar to Battles, in a mercurial realist expression. Barringtone emerge from their previous incarnation post-punk electro pop artists Clor, their debut Snake In The Grass (2008) was produced by Jas Shaw, one half of Simian Mobile Disco. While Barry Dobbin's vocals featured on SMD's track Love, from 2007 album Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release.
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