The Thousands

Contrary to what the internet might have us think, a Wigwam is neither crime fighting toupee, Norwegian glam-rock band nor Blur side project. Most specifically, it is the name for the domed dwellings of Native American tribes and the place that Toby Wilkins reveals to motion-picture ‘trans-American’ Bree Osbourne that he knows her little secret.

It also happens to be the construction over which Perth sound artist Craig McElhinney and chameleonic man-of-many-trades Dave Egan drape their creepy cavity-search of clatter and clamour.

With track titles like ‘Making out with your hand’ and ‘White Lodge I’, theirs is a Twin Peaks-ish road trip through the eerie American landscapes of magical Peyote deserts, through to the sinister outskirts of their own broad minds. Featuring the occasional bleating of Egan’s love-it-or-loathe-it vocal idiosyncrasy, along with the cosmic journeying of noise-laden ambience, join these sonic space cadets in the unearthly disquietude of their own West Australian backwater.