The Manchester band are here with an appropriately mind-melting blast of their newly announced album.

Fury, chaos, the human scale for the human cry (in noise density but not track length), ‘Towards a Universal Theory of Gender’ is a brief but suitably bracing recorded introduction to Manchester group Mumbles, whose live reputation has been rapidly growing by word of mouth this year. The band are noted for their math riffs, clarinet shreds and infectious incitement of playful musical carnage. Describing this as their ‘0th’ single ahead of the more developed track ‘Everything Just Sprawls,’ coming on 25th August, it is more Big Bang than false start. If you are struggling to make out the lyrics, the band explain the gist of the titular ‘Theory of Gender’ that, “Gender is an irrelevant concept when we’re all just so dang sad.”

This release announces the band’s perfect match with label Divine Schism, that bastion of the DIY ethos behind most of Oxford’s best gigs and many great recent releases. ‘…Theory of Gender’ captures the spirit of both outfits well. An 18-second debut single – the idea itself is pure punk: eloquent, uncommercial… slapstick in its immediacy. This manifesto is suitably completed by a mind-melting visualiser created by Joshua Roland. While we wait for their first Divine Schism single proper (and the album to follow), check this out and go catch them at a show goddammit.

Track is only available on Mumbles socials at present! The band are playing this month in Manchester (26th), Oxford (28th) and London (29th).