T.I.T.S are the four ladies of San Francisco better known as Kim West (Crack: WAR, Death Sentence: Panda!), Abbey Kerins (Verbalala, Death & Dying), Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough (MeowMeow and the MeowMeows), and Wendy Farina (Towel, Condor, Amber Asylum). The quartet ply their trade in a kind of witchy / experimental / spaced-out / doom-laden pop, which could easily evoke reminiscences as diverse as Sabbath or Erase Errata or The Troggs or Boris maybe?

The T.I.T.S sound is underpinned by Mary Elizabeth's black-metal bass lines and Wendy's totally animal drum pound. Abbey's guitar lays down a simple rock riff, while Kim's emits a subtly oscillating sheet of feedback. Over the top, all four harmonise with a kind of semi-operatic, fantasy whisper. The effect is this inexplicable feel of time-travelling castle metal – of four ladies of the lake casting forth a single Excalibur, sinking it into stone so deep, no Arthur shall ever wield it.

'THROUGHOUT THE AGES'

Strong Arms | Math

UTR004 | Double gatefold LP | 8 tracks, 70 mins | 14 Aug 2006 | Buy

'Throughout the Ages' is an album that draws from metal and doom, but in which individual songs are stripped down to an icy core. Chanted vocals, sparse, jarring guitars and a drum-centric focus all lend to a compelling sense of drama and impending ruin. Songs move into and out of chaos, regimented rhythms collapsing into squally feedback like a '60s freakout taken to almost parodic extremes. And through this caterwaul, ethereal voices, invoking chants of the medieval and mystical, are barely heard.

'Throughout the Ages' is released as one half of a split double gatefold LP with Leopard Leg's 'The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret of Shh Shh Shh'. Intended as a transatlantic gathering of kindred spirits - two female tribes on a mission to push the boundaries of experimental rock - the record documents the complex and spooky coincidences that exist between two unknown, unheard, unrelated, but highly imaginative bands living thousands of miles apart.