The waiting is over: Column258 drop debut album ‘Interloper (Workshop Sessions Vol 1)’

HASTINGS-based experimental collective Column258 today release debut album, ‘Interloper (Workshop Sessions Vol 1),’ guaranteed to appeal to those who enjoy the sounds of PiL, Suicide, and Bauhaus.

Column258 – Ross Clifford (vocs/electric guitar), Andrew Cooper (vocs/mini Korg/cornet/acoustic guitar), Nick Weakes (bass and other noises), and Matt Williams (drums) – are a genuine experimental collective, combining spoken word, and improvisation.

Column258’s live foundations are in warehouse parties, roof top gigs and art galleries. It’s only recently they began playing more traditional rock venues, resulting in performances tightly honed through years of playing, yet they remain ‘new players’ to promoters and gig goers alike.

And there’s no such thing as a ‘final version’ with the band, and when they were offered free access to studio space above a disused tool hire station, they decided whatever they left with, would be the album.

That approach could easily have led to a catastrophic outcome, but fortune favoured the foolish with the end recordings providing enough output to cover two albums. ‘Interloper (Workshop Sessions Vol 1)’ is late night listening; it’s for digesting and pondering if any of it was intentional, or nothing more than a simple, glorious accident.

The nine-track long-player has been released digitally, along with a limited run of 100 vinyl pressings.

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