Punk with lots of high end. Best songs are “Beloved Infidels,” “Black Bean Chili Thing,” and a cover of Roger Miller’s “King of the Road.” Let that sink in.
Full of delicious melodic distortion, but it never seems to really take off. Paw owes a great nod to mid-late ’80s rock. Paw can do better than this, and has.
Jack Irons (ex-Chili Peppers) & Matt Cameron (Soundgardern) are the bedrock for Johannes’ chord-throttling and Natasha Schneider’s spooky white-soul-mama voice.
Stephanie Sayers does her thing with a pedal steel guitar player, a cellist, and no bass. At first, this lack of low end tones struck my ear as a little weird.