(Andy Synn recommends you all drive carefully, because there’s a Psychohazard ahead)
It was about three-and-a-half years ago, by my count, that I first wrote about excellently-named Polish “Post-Black” quartet Cursebinder just prior to the release of their debut album, Drifting (read all about it here).
Of course, a lot has changed in the world since then – some of it good, much of it bad, and a fair amount still largely inexplicable – and there’s no guarantee that the Cursebinder of 2026 (despite having managed the rare feat of maintaining a consistent line-up since they were formed) will still be the same band they were in 2023.
If anything, however, it seems like the group have only become more themselves – more confident, more collected, more creative – in the intervening years, with the result being that their new album (set for release one week from today on Avantgarde Music) is easily their most wide-ranging, yet also more cohesive, work yet.
