WL//WH Premiere JILK Bricolage
Glasgow-based independent label Bricolage is proud to present “Tetsuo II”, an expansive and multi-faceted electronic concept album from Bristol‘s finest, Jilk.
Deeply rooted in a rich and varied back catalogue on cult labels such as Castles In Space, Project Mooncircle, Woodford Halse, as well as a set of Bandcamp exclusive self-releases, the UK collective, led by Jon Worsley, delivers a stunningly intricate album that is built upon atmospherics, texture and that unique Jilk aesthetic. Frenetic in parts, intimate in others, but fluid throughout with layer upon layer of glitch alchemy, rhythmic dynamics and glints of dusty ambiance.
Second chapter of the trilogy that began with the flamboyant primal ‘lo-fi’ black-and-white 1989 debut, “Tetsuo The Iron Man”, forged by the uncompromising, radical yet poetic, and visionary cinematic ‘punk’ vision of Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto, the cold and industrial blue/gray tinted “Tetsuo II” develops a combination of cyberpunk, body horror, and action movie, telling the story of an ordinary salaryman who, after a terrible trauma, the kidnapping of his son, undergoes an extreme, monstrous physical bio-mechanical transformation into a living weapon, underlined by the notion that the only way to survive an oppressive inhuman society is to partake in a nihilistic, tragic and violent metamorphosis, which leaves no hope, into a post-human man-machine.
WL//WH is pleased to premiere the third track, “Minori’s Hands“, an intense, heart-rending memory of the grievous scene where the protagonist Tomoo realizes that he accidentally killed his son Minori.
“Minori’s Hands” provokes an elegiac, cinematic and achingly meditative electro-acoustic flow that desolately unfolds through an evocative sense of disconnection, melancholy, brokenness, and catharsis, imbued by stretching and humming textures, wobbling underneath the tragic rise and fall of poignant, plaintive string arrangements, with the disturbance of tired guitar scrapes, broken chimes, and skewed resonances, to collapse before clearing away at 3:33 to let soft lonely piano melodies wistfully wander away.
Jilk‘s upcoming album, “Tetsuo II”, is scheduled for release in Cassette & Digital formats on April 3, 2026, via the Bricolage Label Bandcamp. The digital download comes with a bonus, in depth, PDF file that explains the inspiration and themes behind the album.
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