The record refuses to linger, spinning from psychotrope to meditative musical montage, from brilliant electric brain impulses to blue-purple aural tears.
Far from being bleak and forbidding, Bauhaus was inclusive, their cold blood a warm sacrament for the scrabbling weevils crawling over the teenage underbelly.
I was so happy to be doin’ somethin’ other than listenin’ to singer/guitarguy Sooyoung Park’s my-crown-of-thorns-are-a-prickin’-my-heart-on-my-sleeve drivel.
Rube Waddell is a band comprised of three San Francisco-based twisted neo-traditional folkies who play more instruments than you can swing a baseball bat at.
Truth is, as reflexively brilliant and endlessly prolific as Pollard remains, for a guy that puts out as much as he does, he’s the biggest rocktease around.