“Mark Sadgrove and Anthony Guerra are a pair of Australasian transplants currently based in Tokyo, Japan. Iron Sand is a series of electric guitar duets illuminated with harp, electronics, vocals and acoustic strings. Both players work minimal repeating shapes into nagging, emotionally insistent cells of smudged tone that re-visit the same territories again and again, as if to force a gentle confession of significance from the same two or three staggered notes. And it works. There’s something of Loren Connors’ foggy, late night style to the sound of the guitars, with washes of silver strings and solitary single notes left suspended in space. But whereas Connors uses variously amplified techniques in order to access the kind of highly-articulate zone where music and speech blur into one, Sadgrove and Guerra opt for re-statements of the most simplistic musical phonetics in order to access hypnagogic states. This is a magical, delicate recording, where minimal guitar lines interact with roaring analogue silence to create a music that somehow manages to combine stark, auraless playing with a deep, psychedelic atmosphere.” – David Keenan/The Wire.

Massively fractured downer avant folk from Mark Sadgrove aka MHFS with a set of wonkily constructed noise, interference and brokedown singer songwriter-isms that touch on Alastair Galbraith, Jandek and Pip Proud while re-wiring them as sudden invasions of consensus reality, teleporting out of deep fields of illogic clatter, de-tuned instruments and the sound of electricity hissing through wires. Originally conceived as a proxy for live performance, this set plays really well on 7” and makes for a confusingly beautiful puzzle. Edition of 300 copies.