The shape-shifting songs of dub innovators Devon Rexi arrive like quantum conjurings. It’s almost as if their frequencies are echoing from the furthest wormholes of space. As fantastical and inventive as they sound, Devon Rexi’s priority is in the understanding of vulnerability and friction, reality and fragility, mythologies and everyday resistances. Devon Rexi does this artfully and honestly, with deceptively simple arrangements of percussion, bass, and melody. 

The group is formed by a core trio of Nicola Reverda (Nicolini) on drums and vocals, Nushin Naini on bass and vocals, and Goya van der Heyden (La Rat) on samples and effects. In this formation, they skirt and flirt around a motorik kraut-rock mentality with a crisp dub-laden physicality and a heady nose for undiscovered sounds.

“In a world full of derivative post punk, Devon Rexi’s music offers something more vital, evoking the cool strangeness of the Burroughsian cut-up milieu of the avant 80s by making jamming and collaboration intrinsic to their process” – The Quietus