Paxit is the Hebrew for ‘tin can’, and on Left Eye Twitch this Israeli project opens up to reveal a bewilderingly eclectic 29 tracks and 63 minutes of chaotically freeform psychedelic experimentalism, with styles varying from free jazz through to  noisy punk rock and glitchy electronica. Track lengths vary between seven seconds and nine minutes, providing an elusive and rapidly shifting sonic experience which is all too often impossible to process before it slips away like quicksilver. All sorts of instruments, including saxophone, trumpet, recorder, clarinet, bassoon,whistles, hand percussion and acoustic and electric guitars, collide with field recordings, effects, spoken word vocals and found sounds in a sprawling lo-fi assemblage which could be  either enchanting or exasperating, depending on your tolerance for loose and unstructured musical noodling. Some tracks, such as ‘Fat Feline Burned By Window Woman’, ‘Ttoad’, ‘Light/Shine’ or ‘Cryin’ Cat-Like’ venture into time-warping trippiness, others such as ‘Alon’s Room’, ‘Mexico Tortilla 2’ or ‘Devil Himself’ take more aggressively noisy routes towards hardcore or industrial sounds, but Left Eye Twitch is consistently unpredictable, refusing to settle into a fixed style. The delicate picked guitar and crooning vocals of ‘Andromeda’, ‘The Engineer’ and ‘Interlude (Neima)’ offer proof of the musical expertise that Paxit possess, and the echoing, whalesong-like notes of opening track ‘Obese Leviathans’ are pleasantly relaxing for the minute and a half that the track lasts, but the album jumps around all over the place like a hyperactive toddler sitting on an ants’ nest, in a way that I find aesthetically challenging, to say the least. Fans of John Zorn, Nurse With Wound, Mushroom’s Patience or Volcano The Bear might enjoy checking this out, but personally speaking, I feared for my sanity as long as this was playing. The press release states that the album title came from the nervous tics suffered by some band members during the recording sessions. I’m not surprised to hear this – listening to Paxit made me twitchy too.

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