Can founding members Jaki Liebezeit and Irmin Schmidt formed a collaborative project with Burnt Friedman and Jono Pomdore called Cyclopean. As the release blurb reads, “the title provides a metaphor for the music: Cyclopean forms are beautiful, massive and intriguing structures that interlock, intersect and connect seemingly contradictory components”.

Mute will be releasing their self-titled debut EP on February 4th. The EP will be available on 12″ vinyl and digitally, and you can pre-order it here.

Here’s what the blurb says about the EP:
“Heavy, yet light, powerful, subtle, intriguing and playful. There’s also a flavour of the ancient in this music – an artefact from a sophisticated pre-culture perhaps. Extraordinary instrumentation – rubber band guitar, theremin, prepared piano – is unified through the monumental and unique drum patterns, as the characters of the four players are at once individually unmistakably and irrevocably intertwined.”

‘Fingers’ is Cyclopean’s debut track, listen to it beneath.