People Skills - Hum Of The Non-Engine LPPeople Skills could probably kill an hour or two watching you scrape the goo off your mukluks after escorting repeated tromps through the brack befouled trench between music and non music. You put on a show for him, hell put on a show for you. Everyone shows a little leg, we all go home winners. On his first new LP since the 2014 (Siltbreeze) and 2016 (Blackest Ever Black) touchstones, he blends song related material with off kilter signal garble to

some glockenspiel

But there's far more to Silicone Prairie - with quantitatively great songwriting and instrumentation bursting any preconceived sub-subgenre bubbles and occupying a kindred creative plain that made just about any Mould

taking holiday

It was first released on the independent Osaka label Unbalance Records and came to be regarded as a historical masterpiece of independent recordings in Japan

the way the three members trust in the resonance and persistence and joy built into each song and the way they trust in each other

UK post-punk four-piece Violin Sect

It’s now the year 2018

Los Angeles indie-pop band Massage returns with Lane Lines — a six-track EP out in early 2022 on Mt

no one gives a fuck

which finds a midpoint between the late 80s/early 90s scorched earth underground of Siltbreeze & Xpressway and a more European tradition of avant / neo folk volksmusik

and a city consumed by tourism and other forms of gentrification

driving front-man duties to weave ardent pieces driven by hooking lines and textures woven artfully together