Jo Passed - Their Prime

Entering with ghostly vocals and sweeping, melancholic strings, before descending into swathes of heavy noise, opener ‘Left’ is symptomatic of the thrillingly eclectic approach that Vancouver’s Jo Passed adopt on ‘Their Prime’ (a moniker-based joke that they go about proving wrong at every move here). ‘MDM’ is a jubilantly wonky affair; ‘Glass’ dishes out spiky, one note stabs like now-defunct fellow Canadians Women, while ‘Repair’ is a woozy exhalation that crescendoes in crashing fashion and seems like the strange byproduct of having listened to Grizzly Bear and Fugazi in equal measure. A brilliant and unexpected ride from start to finish, ‘Their Prime’ deserves to be thrust into the spotlight.