Bingo Fury’s music is heavily influenced by chance occurrences, with a tendency to include unconventional sounds like breaking glass alongside chord progressions. Drawing inspiration from artists like Captain Beefheart and Laurie Anderson, the 24-year-old musician from Bristol, known as Jack Ogborne, creates dark and brooding ballads characterized by their dissonance. His deep and rough vocals are accompanied by experimental instrumentation and fragmented noise. The songs feature competing horn sections, disjointed piano solos, moments of static, and witty lyrics. In “Leather Sky,” he sings, “This is a new type of pain before you mend my soul.” His latest single, “Mr Stark,” is a partially improvised mix of jittery rhythms and sarcastic one-liners.
Fury does not appreciate the convenience of a studio; he prefers more atmospheric settings. He recorded his debut EP, Mercy’s Cut, in the basement of a pub that was rumored to be a former hangman’s quarters. For his latest album, Bats Feet for a Widow, he stayed in a church while it was being made. As a child, Fury played drums in a church band and drew inspiration from the religious unease he felt while surrounded by the building’s acoustic textures. The sound of echoes bouncing off the high ceiling and a falling crucifix can be heard in the track “I’ll Be Mountains.”
Although he is capable of creating sweeping and sentimental romance, it is the moments of discord that truly define Bingo Fury. His goal is to play with the listener’s expectations and challenge their definition of a song. In an interview with Quietus, he expressed his interest in making people confront uncomfortable emotions that they may not typically experience. The outcome is lounge music that is slightly off-center and has the potential to descend into chaos at any given time.
The album “Bats Feet for a Widow” is currently available through the state51 Conspiracy. Bingo Fury will be performing at Folklore in Hoxton, London on April 18th and at the Jam Jar in Bristol on April 20th.
Source: theguardian.com
