{"product_id":"badge-epoch-furry-worried-ape-vinyl-lp-1","title":"Badge Epoch: Furry Worried Ape - VINYL LP","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFurry Worried Ape\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eBadge Epoch\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eTelephone Explosion\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e628425430037\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eJazz\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2025-12-05\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Furry Worried Ape (TER130) is the second album by Badge Epoch - Maximilian \"Twig\" Turnbull's solitary variant of the Badge Époque Ensemble - and the first in his discography made almost entirely alone. Following 2021's Scroll, a 2xLP sprawl which WIRE praised as \"an attempt to fit a whole world onto two slabs of vinyl,\" this one is all scalpel and no sprawl: six tracks, under half an hour, produced and mixed with forensic patience by Turnbull at Clyde's Temple, his garage home-studio.Built bar-by-bar on MIDI programming - using drum sounds from The Cloud Sound, a sample pack drawn from Badge Époque Ensemble sessions - the grooves bend the grid to their own logic, inhabiting an uncanny register between the performed and programmed. From this blur emerges a language steeped in the lavish elegance of Mizell Brothers productions and Love Unlimited's symphonic jazz-funk, refracted through a modern \"hauntological\" lens; the cosmopolitan peaks of 1970s studio arrangement, rescaled for an era of automation. Throughout, the album navigates multiple meanings of \"funk\": syncopated, groove-first mood building; idiosyncratic strangeness; the singular \"stench\" of a one-person vision commandeering a live-band idiom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Empathic Vertigo \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Erotic Surveillance \u003cbr\u003e1.3 I Look Up To See My Only Sunshine \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Tom Henry's Dream \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Red Leather Interior \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Subjective Objectives\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Badge Epoch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42089697935431,"sku":"45608612","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/4465518-3464303.jpg?v=1760265648","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/badge-epoch-furry-worried-ape-vinyl-lp-1","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}