ESSi interview: A good riff or a good beat, and that's it

She's an experimental guitarist with a jazz background, he is a drummer steeped in New York's noise-rock scene, together, Jessica Ackerley and Rick Daniel make up ESSi, post-punk noise band, who's just released their first album. Listening to 'Vital Creatures', it can seem baffling that only two musicians are playing on the album. But the two of them make up for that in a variety of ways - PopMatters checked out with them how they do it.