Prog rock played with hardcore intensity. Sledgehammer metronome rhythms and guitar student scale charts galore. This is the kind of stuff that can easily choke on it's own pretension, but these guys manage to make it sound pretty good. Partly since there is a sense of having a good time within the dense tuneage, and also a willingness for experimentation (such as the track using only a typewriter, a phone, and a Phase II). If virtuoso tweaker rock is your bag then this disc should be spinning on your system. Oh yeah, the band engineered the recordings at the drummer's house! (Win Records, PO Box 26811, Los Angeles, CA 90026)
Music Reviews | No. 14
Live at the Velvet Lounge CD
by Steve Silverstein
Many albums come out each year documenting collaborations between giants in the worlds of avant garde jazz and improvised music. It's all but impossible to afford to own all of them, and would...