AL KARPENTER - The Forthcoming LP Indie by the end of 1988

by the end of 1988 it was all over for these pioneering Portugese rockers

Influenced by the sounds of seminal ‘90s acts Swervedriver

One of the album’s key elements is the sparse use of Bono’s singing

This music is a busy

originally released in 1993 by Staalplaat

AL KARPENTER - The Forthcoming LP Indie by the end of 1988Al Karpenter swamps threads of song in seething banks of noise and dissonance. You find yourself focusing on blaring surface noise, while sense and melody percolates somewhere underneath. On their third album, Al Karpenter merges its singular vision with a host of collaborators. After finally becoming a band in 2022 with Marta Sainz and Enrique Zaccagnini from Santander joining Al Karpenter and Mattin, and in synchronicity with a recent CIA Debutante