Primitive Parts - Miracle Skin

It’s testament to a musician’s ability when, having involved themselves in a variety of different projects and creative ideas, each project defines itself, not noticeably influenced by the work they’ve done in other settings. With the prolific nature on display from the members of Primitive Parts, they personify the current thirst for creative satiation in the various different outlets they put their names to, driven only by their surrounding peers and the bare resources they work with.

With ‘Miracle Skin’, Primitive Parts immediately state the scope within which they are working. A concise, three-minute pop track that takes the sum of its sections and turns out an angular gem, they deliver with audacity, a freedom which allows for subtle hooks to really hit home.

Coarse, wiry lead-guitar is scattered all over ‘Miracle Skin”s brief length, Sauna Youth’s Lindsay Corstorphine replaces standard melodic lines for piercing variation, while Male Bonding’s Kevin Hendrick and Robin Christian control a bright, almost gentle rhythm that contains the heart of the trio’s pop refinement. The group’s dead-pan harmonies are where to find the rest, delivered with enunciated ease that drips with attitude as much as it does care-free abandonment.

The track end as it starts, the looping sound of wracked lead melody that defines the middle ground the trio have found, an indelible combination of indirect pop nous and untainted, distorted instrumentalism. With each member’s different work still favourably in mind, they’ve once again found made a definitive statement in their creative output.