Bassoon driven avant-garde trio BRIAN! return with their fifth studio album “The Cataclysmic Engine”. Nine angular and heavy compositions blend whole-tone, non-western motifs with frenzied meter and tempo while taking inspiration from finding queer identity (“Rose”), the life blossoming from trauma (“Intemperate to Death”), and embracing brevity when dealing with vulnerability (“Smol”).

This group started really casually, friends jamming in the natural light of the Glitz Car Wash. One day Jeff came through and the chemistry was immediate as it was explosive. This had to be more official. We came up with the name Heuristic, as it means enabling someone to learn or discover something for themselves and I think that really encapsulates who we are as a group. We never tell each other what to play, it's all improvised freely and done so with the utmost level of trust. Playing in Heuristic is like falling off a mountain, freefalling through space, only to be caught by someone else who then tosses you off another mountain and the process continues until we decide it's done. It's exciting, it's unknown and dangerous.

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