“Fast Edit is a palette of qualities and curdled headspaces”, say garage and punk influenced improvising trio Still House Plants, in the press release for their second album.

The group, made up of guitarist Finlay Clark, drummer David Kennedy and vocalist Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach, first met in Glasgow while studying at art school, and although they've since dispersed across the UK, they continue to play and write, coming together for short and intensive periods of rehearsals. Fast Edit is built from recordings taken from such sessions, using mobile phones, dictaphones and laptops.

The collective have put forward an intervention written by Frances Morgan for the cancelled 2020 edition of Glasgow’s Counterflows Festival as a means to introduce the record:

“How do you think we should do this? The song does something different now, puts the other foot forward. How do you know when it’s done? End on a verb and it becomes a command: run! Towards the next thing. Do – towards the next thing to be done.”

Fast Edit is available to pre-order from Bison in the UK, Europe and Australia, and with Blank Forms for North & South America and Asia. It is released on 14 August.

Read an interview with Still House Plants in The Wire 419. Subscribers can read the full article via the online archive.