No Handshake BluesIrma Vep · 2017

loudandquiet

6.0

“Anybody who says they haven’t got time to be in a band only needs to look towards Manchester’s Edwin Stevens to blow that conclusion out of the water. Experimental dirge project Irma Vep is the fifth (and counting) concurrent musical endeavour for Manchester-based Stevens. Hearing ‘No Handshake Blues’ though – the fourth album under the Irma Vep moniker – one wonders whether all this band-hopping ”