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“The weirdest, most physical pop music in the world” – FM4

“compelling music for a broken age” – THE WIRE

“a fresh batch of tracks resembling post-apocalyptic rituals” – ATTIC MAG

PLF is an extraordinary trio formed by the iconoclastic drummer Lukas König, instrument maker and sonic dissident Peter Kutin and the scream of consciousness nomad-vocalist Elvin Brandhi aka Fridge. The group released their debut-album EPDEMO on UK’s Opal Tapes, and it successor LP ParziFoooooooooooL via Vienna’s avant-garde platform Ventil-records.

With Kutin performing on self-devised light-feedback-machines coupled with an array of synths and König’s percussion-electronics wizardry creating a mesmerising rhythm section, Elvin Brandhi’s feral vocalisations add a unique dimension to their sound … an abstracted guitar might transports everything into another realm. PFL present an unorthodox concept of what a band-format can be, standing right at the frontier of sound-art, post-punk, noise-pop and stroboscopic improvisations. Those fortunate enough to witness PLF live know about their potential and the transcendental power of their live-performances, where they seamlessly combine music-light artsitry – all from scratch without back-ups or the usual safety net….

For their second album, the non-conformist trio delves deeper into broken song structures and harsh rhythms. Restless, the »scream-of-consciousness« vocalist Elvin Brandhi, sonic dissident & producer Peter Kutin, and multifarious drummer Lukas König spew a fresh batch of tracks resembling post-apocalyptic rituals. ParziFoooooooooooL is most certainly the sound of a trio in flux since their explosive first sessions, gingerly feeling their way deeper inside the damp dark cavern they opened up on their Opal Tapes-released debut, EPDEMO. PLF became more condensed & on-point, the beats hit harder, bringing in slabs of distantly-remembered techno. The tracks and gnarled noises unfurl and coalesce with their own twisted sense of logic. »Produit Local Fini« sounds like trash-can hip-hop being broadcast from the bottom of a long-abandoned silo – while »PLasitFication« (featuring contributions from actionist/musician Karolina Preuschl) blossoms into a nightmarish raver before dismantling itself in an act of hyperactive self-surgery. The album closes with a rearrangement of myriad PLF sounds stitched together by Ventil alumnus producer, Asfast. It seals the session with a mournful epitaph of untamed vocalizations and rhythmic metal scraping. With the same energy, more focus, and less autotune, PLF’s tiny tribe has returned to the crossroads of pulverized pop and industrial free improv, establishing a style that might be considered the harshest »pop-concréte« around.

Elvin Brandhi is a Welsh singer, vocalist, producer and improviser. In 2017 she was given a PRS Oram Award for Innovative Female Musicians. As a regular performer in the free music scene since 2013 she has collaborated with many improvisers including Rhodri Davies, Eugene Chadbourne, John Bowers to name
only a few.

Lukas König is an Austrian drummer and experimental percussionist, employing electronics along with his cymbal. Collaborations include Moor Mother, Shahzad Ismaily, Audrey Chen, Julien Deprez and many more.

Peter Kutin works across genres, mediums and media. Driven by curiosity and a collaborative ethos, Kutin has written and developed music and site specific sonic environments for film, theatre, performance, contemporary dance, radioplays and is known for his kinetic Audio-Video-Light instruments. His kinetic
apparatus Torso#1 received the golden Nica at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2019. For PLF he uses stroboscopic lights-feedback systems as a main sound-source.