The common thread linking the majority of Whartscape’s massive line-up is undoubtedly explosiveness.

You would be hard-pressed to pick an artist more emblematic of this than Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor. Bearing the marks of hardcore, punk and experimental tendencies, their sound has grown from mostly instrumental to encompass more harmony, more vocals and even horn passages, making them one of the most vital and bright iterations of noise-and-drone inspired music extant.

Parts & Labor will be electrifying your ears outside on North Ave for the last day of Whartscape. Be there. Listen to these tracks and read on for their answers to our pre-packaged Whartscape mini-terview.

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MP3: Parts & Labor – Fractured Skies from Mapmaker

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MP3: Parts & Labor – Voltage from Rise Rise Rise

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