Be Kind Cadaver.
Be Kind Cadaver are a post-punk band, if ‘post-punk’ means drawing on contemporary Ugandan rhythms as much as Duster-inspired slow-core, Jesus Lizard era noise rock and experimental modular electronics. Throw in a psyche improv and a big pop chorus, front the whole thing with a mildly angry Scott Walker and you might be close. A two piece formed of visual artist Leroy Brown (guitars, percussion) and performance artist Distant Animals (vocals, synthesis, percussion) the band draw upon a shared love of conceptual art, approaching the music as more an exploration of sound as a social process than a set genre or form. And if all that sounds pretentious, it probably is – their practices steeped in academic terms such as ‘cross medial interrogation’ and ‘critical emergence’, which they can just about get away with as one of them is an actual doctor.
Having previously explored the niche issue of male postpartum on their 2022 EP of the same name, they’re now engaging with the notion of cultural and political impotence, framing the complexities of contemporary Britain through the prism of the everyday, the mundane, and the pedestrian.
Their latest EP ‘The World’s Greatest Mind’ premieres in 2024, the band are playing live shows in support of the release.