Baking a cake is a simple thing. Two eggs, two hundred grams of flour, sugar and margarine, all mixed together and gently cooked for thirty minutes. An easy recipe. The results are fairly consistent, you know what you’ll get, but if you change those ingredients things become more interesting. Add grated carrot or courgette and you change the texture. Add raisins and you sweeten the flavour. Jagged City is a collaboration whose main contributors are Jake Woodruff of Defeater, Carlos Torres who worked with Explosions In The Sky and drummer/producer Urian Hackney. Together, they’re baking an instrumental, post-rock cake. With the help of numerous other artists and performers they’re keen to add strange ingredients and use unorthodox methods, making for a slightly unusual taste.

Jagged City is an ideal name for this project. Not just because its collaborators are based in different locations, but because there is a spiky, slightly unfriendly feel to their music, the kind of hostility…

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