FRANCIS PLAGNE - The Refrain LP Crust Apart from their “normal” instruments

Apart from their “normal” instruments guitar

These liminal spaces and complicated emotions are made ever clearer by Louise’s nuanced performances and arrangements

Adrian’s anguished voice tackles lyrics that are politically charged and morbidly fixated

the EP “Blackout Transmission” presents a body of music whose narrative traverses through landscapes against a backdrop that shifts from late daylight into dusk

“Brutalism” is a deadly serious indictment on popular culture

FRANCIS PLAGNE - The Refrain LP Crust Apart from their “normal” instruments"Black Truffle proudly presents The Refrain from Melbourne based artist Francis Plagne, whose growing catalog of collaborative and solo releases range from song based work to abstract audio collages. Closely aligned with Plagne's Moss Trumpet LP (released by Penultimate Press in 2018), The Refrains two side long tracks mix sounds of the mundane with the otherworldly; rising, receding and overlapping. The result feels like being led through a series of