Add to my list of favorite black metal supergroups with Arcturus and War. While stylistically galloping all over the map, this has a vibe like a concept album.
Unwound breaks no new ground, sticking to their tried and true formula of Big Black-like guitar histrionics, tribal bass, and wonderfully off-kilter drum beats.
The predominantly instrumental “Gull Bite,” a song perfect for the scene in which Indiana Jones is drugged by wicked villains with a pick-pocketing monkey.
Effusively lyrical without a single word uttered. Organically configured and artificially sweetened. Convolutedly straightforward and definitively elliptical.
Guitarist Daniel Ash, roadie Glenn Campling, and drummer Kevin Haskins after Bauhaus’ breakup, has had its output reconfigured into a number of releases.