Grumbling Fur

London-based experimental collective Grumbling Fur was born out of a daylong group improvisation that occurred in 2011. Like-minded players <a href="spotify:artist:4hfjxFMQMZHryumdPSIFTS">Daniel O'Sullivan</a>, Antti Uusimaki, <a href="spotify:artist:0FuaxuauyMnzN1OdqkFiJE">Alexander Tucker</a>, Jussi Lehtisalo, and David Smith came together, having known each other from playing in similarly dark and experimental bands like <a href="spotify:artist:3Aym9HWMoIOubfMXll94Jp">Pharoah Overlord</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1BHZiM8ixDrrL4J9VVlSH9">Guapo</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:5YWIIiqupYpLTAVSrYZ0Ns">Mothlite</a>, among many others. The Krautrock-inspired astral traveling put to tape that day was eventually edited and released as Furrier. Stripping down the collective group to just <a href="spotify:artist:4hfjxFMQMZHryumdPSIFTS">O'Sullivan</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0FuaxuauyMnzN1OdqkFiJE">Tucker</a>, Grumbling Fur returned in 2012 with Alice, a more spacious and pop-oriented outing recorded as part of the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Latitudes%22">Latitudes</a> in-studio series. The duo returned in 2013 with the finely honed and highly electronic Glynnaestra, moving even closer to electropop. They continued to weave a blend of abstract experimentalism and <a href="spotify:artist:7MSUfLeTdDEoZiJPDSBXgi">Brian Eno</a>-inflected science pop on 2014's Preternaturals (issued by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22The+Quietus%22">The Quietus</a>). In 2015, <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Important+Records%22">Important Records</a> released ggrrreeebbbaaammmnnnuuuccckkkaaaiiioooww!!!, a collaboration between Grumbling Fur (billed as the Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra) and legendary minimalist composer <a href="spotify:artist:4MKrXiEHOd8zXvrxRsAJ8Q">Charlemagne Palestine</a>. Grumbling Fur returned to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Thrill+Jockey%22">Thrill Jockey</a> for their poppiest album yet, 2016's FurFour. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi