Giulio Erasmus and the End of the Worm

Giulio Erasmus’s music swirls into unintelligible mutterings, songs, and collapsing collages, all made with the idea of keeping things simple. With heavy delay effects often cut short, metallic percussion, murky vocals, deconstructed electronics, and miniaturist melodies with snippets of the grandiose and the absurdly urban, all tracks here are patient, explorative, and freeform. Through curves of darkness and curves of light, this is a choreography of ideas, a passing infatuation that runs deep. Between alienating and concrete, making the hiss of plugged instruments a central part of it all, Erasmus uses crude field recordings, voice samples, and descriptive and contemplative lyrics to great effect, reversing musical logic as melody and rhythm confusedly spiral around them. 

Now played as a quartet! 

Calamity! 

'It’s like riding a 6-legged horse, where sometimes the saddle starts to levitate and leave the animal.’ - Felix Kubin

The music of the Belgian quintet Giulio Erasmus and the End of the Worm feeds on the sonic and rhythmic experiments of the post-punk era, its sense for minimalism and reduction – and the sarcastic wit needed to counter the apocalyptic zeitgeist of the 1980s. The band say that their music should sound like collages that have just fallen apart. They always manage to create the greatest confusion with the simplest means.