ADRA Promotions presents Saturday August 30th 2025 Water Damage (USA- Cardinal Fuzz/12XU) Maximal repetition minimum deviation double-drumming drone rock collective with members of Swans, Spray Paint, Black Eyes, Bhajan Bhoy on Cardinal Fuzz / 12XU Records. 'a rare mind eraser for our increasingly plugged-in times' - Pitchfork Solderer Members of Beige Palace/Thank/Territorial Gobbing atonal gone-off-core. At Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds£14/£10 (plus booking fee). 7:30pm doors. wharf chambers is members club, you must be a member or a guest of a member to attend - for more info go to wharfchambers.org more info Using the motto, Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation, Water Damage create glowing fields of drones that pretty much suck you right in and boil you alive. They prefer if each of their sonic ideas takes up a whole reel of tape, and once they start they dont look back. Everything proceeds towards an imaginary end point that is only achieved when the tape starts flapping. The members are all vets of various projects Spray Paint, Black Eyes, USA/Mexico, more eaze, Thor & Friends, Marriage, Swans, SUR, Astral Spirits Records, among others. Their approach to the form is less front-loaded than most of their peers, and the surface of their sound is sometimes ruffled by aural events of an un-drone-like nature. But the main gush is usually a blend of harmonic tones and textures pointing towards a goal that is just out of ear-shot, just over the next bluff, and perhaps forever just beyond our reach. "Water Damage create a transcendent euphoria by repeating a single riff for 40 minutes, with only minimal (yet frequently devastating) deviation. One minute is curious, five strange, perhaps verging on boring; but everyone in the room eventually flips as that noise becomes as vital as air, as hypnotic as the peerless masters of trance The Master Musicians of Joujouka. An absolute revolution." --- David Hutcheon & Ian Harrison, MOJO, Nov 2024 "Loud, relentless, unrepentant: Lock into that tug of war, and you may forget where you are, how you are, who you are. It feels fantastic, a rare mind eraser for our increasingly plugged-in times." --- Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, April 2024 "While it is conceptually outlined and a degree of discipline is involved to keep it on track this is not clinical, cerebral art music, its hot in-the-red minimalism, blown out and overwhelming. The impulse is elemental and seemingly eternal, ecstatic trance music for beyond the rational space. It taps the unconscious, its pre-language. Or post language, or simply outside of it. It doesnt tell stories, theres no narrative, only sound. It is music of love, music of purity, of the stretched elastic moment. In this sense its holy, a channel to the divine." "Raw, anxious energy committed to tape, Water Damage dispense motorik, long-form psychedelia that spits and crackles, bending into new shapes and sizes every time you listen. It makes them one of the most exciting experimental concerns walking the face of this god forsaken earth." --- Simon Kirk, Sun13, April 2024