Fractured Wrist Return With Highly Seasonal Instro Delight With “December”

Fractured Wrist: December SCOT – DL [2024]

December 4:11

It’s the day after Christmas [Boxing Day, in the Commonwealth] and there’s a musical gift in our stocking. Last May we had heard the first efforts of Scotland’s Fractured Wrist, who were exploring a kind of pristine pop using only guitars and analog synthesizers recorded to 4-track. Minimal, in scope, but I’d hesitate to call the resultant music minimal. Although the sonic palette is very finite in scope, the melodic complexity that Fractured Wrist brings to the proceedings results in a kind of Pop music for those who are fed up with its excesses.

“December” was recorded just eleven days ago so it comes by its title honestly since it only met the world on last Monday. Crystalline synths proffered the delicacy of their melodies while a bass line of modesty added subtle pull to the bottom end of the song. At nearly 1:20 in the glory of the guitar added its dulcet tones to the composition and once more I have to cite New Order’s “Elegia” as perhaps the starting point of Fractured Wrist. But here the music celebrated a poise and stillness that was well balanced between ennui and wistful longing.

Whereas New Order just couldn’t shuck their penchant for melodrama, Fractured Wrist naturally set their ego aside to serve the delicacy of the song and the purity of the vibe. Giving us a reassuring balm for the winter blahs that we can nestle within to find the comfort hidden in the margins of the in the cold, monochrome month. And best of all, the lack of a vocal means we’re spared another, unneeded Christmas song. Listen in, below.

Fractured Wrist had promised us more where that had come from following the launch of the project in June with the first EP. Since then it’s been a tumultuous six months and the arrival of this single was a case of better late than never for calendar year 2024. The single on Bandcamp is just £1.00 so there’s always room in the wallet for such comforting luxuries as we await the next outpouring of well-considered melody from Scotland’s Fractured Wrist. DJ hit that button!