Recording an entire album’s worth of blues guitar instrumentals, and keeping the listener engaged, is an exceedingly difficult thing to do. Freddie King could do it. So could Albert Collins, Ike Turner, Earl Hooker and I’ll bet “Gatemouth” Brown could have if he set his mind to it. Granted, there’s some noodling here as the [...]
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Metronome the City, Object to be Destroyed (Independent)
August 1, 2010 – 12:22 am
On Object to be Destroyed, underground, experimental rock provocateurs Metronome the City have culled together a set of hazy, dystopic sound collages steeped in shoe-gaze, math rock and sludge medal. Theatrical and foreboding, this largely instrumental endeavor’s eerie, engrossing textures and clamorous convulsions call to mind the solo works of the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez [...]
I, Octopus, I’d Rather Be a Lightning Rod Than a Seismograph (Independent)
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
There’s something to be said about a band that waits nine years to release its first full-length album. Whether the motives for such a delay stem from perfectionism, laziness, or simply different artistic priorities, one thing you can bet on is that the final product will display a level of cohesiveness not generally found in [...]
