Review: The Wig by Andrew Fogarty/ David Lacey
Label: Fort Evil Fruit 'The Wig' is a labyrinthine concept piece exploring the concept "le perruque" - doing one's work on company time. Described as a "collage of workplace field recordings," it is a strange concept album and modern pastiche to gothic noise. Each track expands into what is essentially a caffeinated department meeting with the voices on mute. Irish experimentalists David Lacey [Rainfear, Irish improve scene] and Andrew Fogarty [Toymonger, Boys of Summer] here seem to organize the often monotonous and disheveled shuffling of daily office routine into clicking plastic landscapes littered with creaky doors and a mild cough. The Wig by Andrew Fogarty / David Lacey ‘The Wig’ is a scarce blending of human ambience and found sound set in drab grey spaces most musicians are keen on escaping. What Fogarty and Lacey do is embrace the limited instrumentation and often-abysmal acoustics of office spaces and turn it into a ...