Scum

Recorded live in a single take inside the resonant acoustics of St John's Church in Stratford, London, 'Scum' is a sprawling 21-minute improvised ambient piece. Its spacious, dynamic manipulation of traditional rock instrumentation was explicitly cited by critic Simon Reynolds when he famously coined the term 'post-rock' in a 1994 review. The track moves glacially through phases of jazzy silence, field recordings, and sudden, abrasive guitar noise.