EXEK – Prove the Mountains Move
Post-punk dub from Melbourne, absurdist and sincere.
For just over a decade, Melbourne’s EXEK have been quietly doing something no one else does quite right: post-punk dub twisted into something stranger, absurdist and sincere all at once. Prove the Mountains Move, their seventh album and first for DFA, is their most melodic and ambitious record yet, warmer and more nakedly felt than anything before, and somehow still utterly inscrutable. Albert Wolski remains the great oblique lyricist of his generation; stream of consciousness delivery with a Wyatt-like quality, wry and unplaceable. Words that surface the way thoughts do past midnight on a long drive. Rhythmic obsessions intact, but more lighthearted now. Road trip music for the sunburnt and restless. I’ve had it on repeat since day one. Their best yet, and it’s not particularly close.