Equipment - Madrigal / Chump

A vinyl compilation of Equipment's first two EPs. Madrigal originally released October 25, 2019Chump originally released November 25, 2016Both releases recorded, mixed, and mastered by Steven Blake WarstlerReturning to where you came from can be a drag. When composer Bernardo Pisano returned to his birthplace of Florence in the 1520s, he was accused of being a spy, tortured, and imprisoned while his Italian city lay under siege. When he was released, he created the madrigal, a form of classical music containing both more than one voice and non-religious themes. Equipment may not have the past that maestro did, but on their second EP Madrigal, they’ve returned to where their debut EP Chump was born. What emerged came from more than one voice—it’s Equipment’s first outing with an all-hands-on-deck mentality—and there’s no divine intervention on display. Self-awareness this simple must be classically trained.“We had almost no inhibitions and wanted to go all out with our experimental ide